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Climate Policy And Nonrenewable Resources

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Author : Karen Pittel
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2014-08-15

Climate Policy And Nonrenewable Resources written by Karen Pittel and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Business & Economics categories.

Too rapidly rising carbon taxes or the introduction of subsidies for renewable energies induce owners of fossil fuel reserves to increase their extraction rates for fear of their reserves becoming worthless. Fossil fuel use is thus brought forward. The resulting acceleration of global warming and counter-productivity of well-intended climate policy has been coined the Green Paradox. This volume presents a range of studies extending the basic analysis to allow for clean energy alternatives, dirty energy alternatives, and the intricate strategic issues between different countries on the globe.

The Green Paradox

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Author : Hans-Werner Sinn
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-02-03

The Green Paradox written by Hans-Werner Sinn and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-03 with Business & Economics categories.

A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground. The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach—which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy—has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts to promote alternative energy, impose emission controls on cars, and enforce tough energy-efficiency standards for buildings, the relentlessly rising curve of CO2 output does not show the slightest downward turn. Some proposed solutions are downright harmful: cultivating crops to make biofuels not only contributes to global warming but also uses resources that should be devoted to feeding the world's hungry. In The Green Paradox, Sinn proposes a new, more pragmatic approach based not on regulating the demand for fossil fuels but on controlling the supply. The owners of carbon resources, Sinn explains, are pre-empting future regulation by accelerating the production of fossil energy while they can. This is the “Green Paradox”: expected future reduction in carbon consumption has the effect of accelerating climate change. Sinn suggests a supply-side solution: inducing the owners of carbon resources to leave more of their wealth underground. He proposes the swift introduction of a “Super-Kyoto” system—gathering all consumer countries into a cartel by means of a worldwide, coordinated cap-and-trade system supported by the levying of source taxes on capital income—to spoil the resource owners' appetite for financial assets. Only if we can shift our focus from local demand to worldwide supply policies for reducing carbon emissions, Sinn argues, will we have a chance of staving off climate disaster.

The Green Paradox And Learning By Doing In The Renewable Energy Sector

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Author : Daniel Nachtigall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

The Green Paradox And Learning By Doing In The Renewable Energy Sector written by Daniel Nachtigall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.

Going Full Circle Demand Side Constraints To The Green Paradox

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Author : Corado Di Maria
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Going Full Circle Demand Side Constraints To The Green Paradox written by Corado Di Maria and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.

We argue that the literature on the green paradox has largely ignored the demand side of the resource market, and that this side of the market may mitigate the size of an emissions increase in response to imperfect climate policies. These claims are informed by recent empirical findings. Our arguments lead to clear policy recommendations.

Unintended Detrimental Effects Of Environmental Policy

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Author : Edwin Van der Werf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Unintended Detrimental Effects Of Environmental Policy written by Edwin Van der Werf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Environmental economics categories.