The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes
Policy makers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment and GDP.
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The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI)
Register now! On September 17 – 19, 2020, SETI will organize its fifth annual workshop on global energy transitions research. The workshop will be held virtually over Zoom, and will feature sessions…
Managing Climate Change in Post COVID-19 Nigeria
A Webinar and Dialogue on Managing Climate Change in Post COVID-19 Nigeria: Policy Options for Low-Carbon Climate Resilient Development Registration Coming Soon
Environmental policy instruments and corruption
In this paper we discuss the choice of taxation or regulation of environmental externalities. The subject might appear to be a well-trodden path, but we believe we have a new angle on this well-established question. We think we are being quite realistic when we assume that corrupt practices lurk behind every corner, threatening to derail the good intents of any regulator.
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New EfD video on Carbon Pricing
A price on carbon? This is now a popular phrase in growing economies and business, where countries are moving towards putting a price on carbon pollution as a means of bringing down emissions and…
The Economics of REDD through an Incidence of Burdens and Benefits Lens
Forests in lower-income countries provide a global public good, carbon sequestration. REDD, "reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" is a performance-based payment designed to align private incentives at the country level with the socially optimal level of forest loss. This review article focuses on the distributional implications of REDD, specifically on whom the burdens and benefits fall. First, REDD implementation has proven more difficult and costly than originally anticipated.
Measuring the net benefits of payments for hydrological services programs in Mexico
A number of studies show that payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs contribute to reducing deforestation, but few have measured the impact on ecosystem service provision or compared economic benefits and costs of these programs. We integrate impact evaluation and ecosystem service measurement to examine the effects of PES programs in Veracruz, Mexico. We use quasi-experimental methods to measure the effect of enrolling in PES on forest cover. We link these changes in forest cover to field-calibrated measures of water regulation and carbon storage.
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EAERE 2020 Conference - EfD's Policy Session "Carbon Pricing for Sustainable Development
EfD will organize a policy session on carbon pricing and development, titled "Carbon Pricing for Sustainable Development". The session is led by Thomas Sterner and Jan Christoph Steckel. It will take…
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