• A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for climate change 

      Greaker, Mads; Stoknes, Per Espen; Alfsen, Knut H.; Ericson, Torgeir (Discussion papers;718, Working paper, 2012-11)
      Agenda 21 required countries to develop and regularly update a national set of indicators for sustainable development. Several countries now have such sets also including separate indicators for climate change. Some of ...
    • Benefits of climate policies: Some tentative calculations 

      Alfsen, Knut H.; Brendemoen, Anne; Glomsrød, Solveig (Discussion Paper;No. 69, Working paper, 1992-03)
      Consequences for the Norwegian economy of an active policy against anthropogenic climate change can be analyzed by use of an economic model evaluating the differences between a reference scenario without control policies ...
    • Direct and indirect effects of reducing so 2 emissions: experimental calculations on the msg 4e model 

      Alfsen, Knut H.; Hanson, Donald A.; Glomsrød, Solveig (Discussion Paper;No. 20, Working paper, 1986-12-15)
      Preliminery estimates of impacts of regulating SO emissions from manufacturing sectors are made. Only emissions pertaining 2 to fuel use are included in the regulation. Direct and indirect effects are considered and it ...
    • Environmental indicators 

      Alfsen, Knut H.; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Brunvoll, Frode; Lurås, Hilde; Nyborg, Karine; Sæbø, Hans Viggo (Discussion Paper;No. 71, Working paper, 1992-04)
      The report discusses possible logical structures and content of a set of environmental indicators for Norway. The emphasis is on structure; proposals for specific indicators and data presented are of a more preliminary nature.
    • From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development 

      Alfsen, Knut H.; Greaker, Mads (Discussion Papers;No. 478, Working paper, 2006)
      Abstract: Norway has a long history in trying to develop management tools for sustainable development. From the early development of natural resources accounts in the 1980’s, through discussions of the usefulness of ...
    • Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol without Russian participation 

      Holtsmark, Bjart; Alfsen, Knut H. (Discussion Papers;No. 376, Working paper, 2004)
      Abstract: All Annex B parties but Russia, Australia and USA, have ratified the Kyoto Protocol so far. It is still an open question whether Russia will ratify and secure that the Protocol enters into force. This ...
    • PPP-correction of the IPCC emission scenarios - does it matter? 

      Holtsmark, Bjart; Alfsen, Knut H. (Discussion Papers;No. 366, Working paper, 2004)
      Abstract: Ian Castles and David Henderson have criticized IPCC’s Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) (IPCC, 2000) for using market exchange rates (MER) instead of purchasing power parities (PPP) when converting ...
    • Secondary Benefits of the EC Carbon/Energy Tax 

      Alfsen, Knut H.; Birkelund, Hugo; Aaserud, Morten (Discussion papers;104, Working paper, 1993-11)
      Emissions of CO2, SO2 and NO are all closely linked to burning of fossil fuels. Here we report on simulations done by linking a Sectoral European Energy Model (SEEM) covering energy demand in nine Western European countries ...
    • Use of macroeconomic models in analysis of environmental problems in Norway and consequences for environmental statistics 

      Alfsen, Knut H. (Discussion Paper;No. 61, Working paper, 1991-03)
      This paper starts with a brief summary of the development of resource accounting in Norway. Section 2 is on the development of the analytical tools used in Norway for studies of interactions between economic activity and ...