International Energy Agency (RFFers may access this through OECDiLibrary — if prompted username and password are on the library landing page, top left ) http://tinyurl.com/22sekx7 This 2010 edition of Nuclear Energy Data, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of official statistics and country reports on nuclear energy, provides key information on plans for new nuclear … Continue reading »
Posted on October 12, 2010 …
Voluntary Carbon Markets: How Can They Serve Climate Policies?
OECD / by Pierre Guigon (OECD Environmental Working Paper No. 19) http://tinyurl.com/34ob3bh In this paper, we aim to examine how voluntary carbon markets can provide a valuable contribution to strengthening domestic and international climate policies. Voluntary markets are defined as small and unregulated segments of an established carbon market that are driven by voluntary offsetting … Continue reading »
Towards Global Carbon Pricing: Direct and Indirect Linking of Carbon Markets
OECD / by Rob Dellink, Stéphanie Jamet, Jean Chateau and Romain Duval http://tinyurl.com/275d2by Emissions trading systems (ETS) can play a major role in a cost-effective climate policy framework. Both direct linking of ETSs and indirect linking through a common crediting mechanism can reduce costs of action. We use a global recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model … Continue reading »
Buying and Canceling Allowances as an Alternative to Offsets for the Voluntary Market: A Preliminary Review of Issues and Options
OECD / by Anja Kollmuss and Michael Lazarus http://tinyurl.com/3a7ykdj In recent years, businesses, local governments and individuals have set goals for reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases. In addition to directly reducing their own emissions, many of these entities have purchased carbon offsets to help achieve their mitigation goals. Yet establishing offset quality can be … Continue reading »
Plan or React? Analysis of Adaptation Costs and Benefits Using Integrated Assessment Models
OECD / by Shardul Agrawala, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, Kelly de Bruin, Enrica De Cian, Rob Dellink, Elisa Lanzi (OECD Environment Working Papers No. 23) http://tinyurl.com/2e7xy98 Financing for adaptation is a core element in the ongoing international negotiations on climate change. This has motivated a number of recent global estimates of adaptation costs. While important … Continue reading »
Incorporating Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Environmental Impact Assessments
OECD / by Shardul Agrawala, Arnoldo Matus Kramer, Guillaume Prudent-Richard, Marcus Sainsbury http://tinyurl.com/2djvfj6 National governments and development agencies have invested considerable effort in recent years to develop methodologies and tools to screen their projects for the risks posed by climate change. However, these tools have largely been developed by the climate change community and their … Continue reading »
Modelling Load Shifting Using Electric Vehicles in a Smart Grid Environment
International Energy Agency / by Shin-ichi Inage www.iea.org/papers/2010/load_shifting.pdf Electric vehicles (EVs) represent both a new demand for electricity and a possible storage medium that could supply power to utilities. The “load shifting” and “vehicle-to-grid” concepts could help cut electricity demand during peak periods and prove especially helpful in smoothing variations in power generation introduced to … Continue reading »
Gauging the Impact of Higher Capital and Oil Costs on Potential Output
OECD / by Boris Cournède http://tinyurl.com/2btov9v The 2007-2009 period has been characterised by an oil shock followed by a financial crisis. Higher oil prices and the prospect of higher borrowing costs are likely to reduce the productive potential of OECD economies. The present study provides illustrative numerical estimates of the impact under different scenarios using … Continue reading »
Is There a Case for Carbon-Based Border Tax Adjustment? An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
OECD / by Jean-Marc Burniaux, Jean Chatea, Romain Duval (OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 794) http://tinyurl.com/2byojzu Concern that unilateral greenhouse gas emission reductions could foster carbon leakage and undermine the international competitiveness of domestic industry has led to growing calls for carbon-based border-tax adjustments (BTAs). This paper uses a global general equilibrium model to … Continue reading »
Korea’s Green Growth Strategy: Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines
OECD / by Randall Jones and Byungseo Yoo (OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 798) http://tinyurl.com/23f7jm5 Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a cost-effective manner requires moving from a strategy … Continue reading »
