The Green Paradox states that a gradually more ambitious climate policy such as a renewables subsidy or an anticipated carbon tax induces fossil fuel owners to extract more rapidly and accelerate global warming. However, if extraction becomes more costly as reserves are depleted, such policies also shorten the fossil fuel era, induce more fossil...
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Billets marqués ‘ global warming ’
Cumulative carbon emissions and the green paradox
The evolution and governance architecture of the climate change regime
This book chapter provides an historical and legal introduction to the UN climate change regime
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The Durban platform negotiations: goals and options
This essay of Daniel Bodansky unpacks the elements of the Durban platform and analyzes the possible goals of the new round of negotiations. It then examines three possible models of how international law might address climate change...
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Global warming: Prices versus quantities from a strategic point of view
This article investigates how the choices of the instruments affects the interactions in a stock externality game (global warming) between cartelized fossil fuel suppliers and consumers
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A mechanism design approach to climate agreements
The authors analyze environmental agreements in contexts with asymmetric information, voluntary participation by sovereign countries and possibly limited enforcement
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Too little oil, too much coal: optimal carbon tax and when to phase in oil, coal and renewables
The authors's main message is that it is optimal to use less coal and more oil once one takes account ofcoal being a backstop which emits much more CO2 than oil
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Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System"
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Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun
The authors offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time...
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W[h]ither the Kyoto Protocol? Durban and Beyond
This paper for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements analyzes the options going forward, including adoption of a legally-binding second commitment period, a "political" second commitment period, or no new commitment period.
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Flood risks, climate change impacts and adaptation benefits in Mumbai
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