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Cost-effective unilateral climate policy design: Size Matters
(Discussion Papers;No. 664, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: Given the bleak prospects for a global agreement on mitigating climate change, pressure for unilateral abatement is increasing. A major challenge is emissions leakage. Border carbon adjustments and output-based ... -
From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development
(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 ... -
How well do tree plantations comply with the twin targets of the clean development mechanism? : the case of tree plantations in Tanzania
(Discussion Papers;No. 534, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: This paper studies the effect of a CDM tree-planting project on carbon sequestration and urban and rural income distribution, taking economy-wide impacts into account. Carbon sequestration in agricultural soil ... -
Incentives for merger in a noncompetitive permit market
(Discussion Papers;No. 568, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: A group of small competitive permits traders facing an imperfectly competitive permit market may consider cooperation (merger) to act strategically in the permit market. It is a well-known result in the literature ... -
PPP-correction of the IPCC emission scenarios - does it matter?
(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 ... -
Richer and cleaner - at others' expense?
(Discussion Papers;No. 477, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Pollution intensive production can be avoided domestically by increased imports and less exports of dirty products. Such trade effects may imply more emissions abroad, or pollution leakages. We study whether ... -
Sectoral and regional expansion of emissions trading
(Discussion Papers;No. 654, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: We consider an international emissions trading scheme with partial sectoral and regional coverage. Sectoral and regional expansion of the trading scheme is beneficial in aggregate, but not necessarily for ... -
The clean development mechanism versus international permit trading: the effect on technological change
(Discussion Papers;No. 521, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: The clean development mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol may induce technological change in developing countries. As an alternative to the clean development mechanism regime, developing countries may accept a ... -
The European Union's potential for strategic emissions trading in a post-Kyoto climate agreement
(Discussion Papers;No. 530, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: The literature suggests that Russia and Ukraine may become large sellers of greenhouse gas emissions permits under the Kyoto Protocol and might exploit their market power to maximize trading profits. The EU ...