Brookings Institution/ by Carolyn Fischer and Richard Morgenstern http://tinyurl.com/yksauet [From summary] This paper reviews the evidence on the competitiveness burdens imposed on domestic energy-consuming industries as a result of a unilateral or near-unilateral carbon pricing policy. We also examine the nature and magnitude of emissions leakage that could undermine the environmental effectiveness of such a … Continue reading »
Posted on October 28, 2009 …
Equity and Efficiency in Cap-And-Trade : Effectively Managing the Emissions Allowance Supply
Brookings Institution / by Adele Morris http://tinyurl.com/ykezgbk (summary) / http://tinyurl.com/ylmbb5t (pdf) As the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hosts a series of hearings this week on climate change legislation, Adele Morris discusses the likely distributional implications of a U.S. cap-and-trade system. She explains how policy-makers could manage these implications by altering the way in … Continue reading »
Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use
National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12794 [Press release] A report just released by the National Academies of Science estimates the “hidden” costs of energy production and use. These costs, which include human health effects, physical damages to buildings and other structures, and reduction in grain crop harvests caused by air pollution are not reflected in market prices … Continue reading »
Expert Elicitation of Cost, Performance, and RD&D Budgets for Greenhouse Gas Reducing Strategies
Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Melissa Chan and Laura Diaz Anadon http://tinyurl.com/yhckc5y This is PDF of a presentation without accompanying text.
Climate Change and the Economics of Targeted Mitigation in Sectors with Long-lived Capital Stock
World Bank / by Zmarak Shalizi and Franck Lecocq http://tinyurl.com/yhdpr7a [Abstract] Mitigation investments in long-lived capital stock (LLKS) differ from other types of mitigation investments in that, once established, LLKS can lock-in a stream of emissions for extended periods of time. Moreover, historical examples from industrial countries suggest that investments in LLKS projects or networks … Continue reading »
Climate Change and Individual Behavior : Considerations for Policy
World Bank / by Andrea Liverani http://tinyurl.com/yfa6skk [Abstract] Climate change is anthropogenic – the product of billions of acts of daily consumption. That solutions need to be anthropogenic too is well accepted. Yet, suggested solutions are normally cast in the realms of finance and technology, often neglecting the primal root of the problem: individual behavior. … Continue reading »
