Climate policy and nonrenewable resources : the green paradox and beyond / edited by Karen Pittel, Frederick van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen.

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 co...

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Other Authors: Pittel, Karen, 1969- (Editor), Ploeg, Frederick van der, 1956- (Editor), Withagen, Cees, 1950- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.
Series:CESifo seminar series.
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