Climate policy and nonrenewable resources : the green paradox and beyond

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.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Government policy.
Nonrenewable natural resources.
Supply-side economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
Climatic changes > Government policy
Nonrenewable natural resources
Supply-side economics
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Table of Contents:
  • The green paradox : a mirage? / Karen Pittel, Rick van der Ploeg, and Cees Withagen
  • Supply-side climate policy and the green paradox / Michael Hoel
  • The green paradox as a supply phenomenon / Julien Daubanes and Pierre Lasserre
  • The green paradox under imperfect substitutability between clean and dirty fuels / Ngo Van Long
  • Fossil fuels, backstop technologies, and imperfect substitution / Gerard van der Meijden
  • Innovation and the green paradox / Ralph A. Winter
  • Resource extraction and backstop technologies in general equilibrium / Ngo Van Long and Frank Stèahler
  • Does a future rise in carbon taxes harm the climate? / Florian Habermacher and Gebhard Kirchgèassner
  • The impacts of announcing and delaying green policies / Darko Jus and Volker Meier
  • Going full circle : demand-side constraints to the green paradox / Corrado Di Maria, Ian Lange, and Edwin van der Werf
  • Quantifying intertemporal emissions leakage / Carolyn Fischer and Stephen Salant.

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