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| Title: | Some Distributional Issues in Greenhouse Gas Policy Design |
| Authors: | Freebairn, John W. |
| Authors (Email): | Freebairn, John (j.freebairn@unimelb.edu.au) |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | Conference Paper |
| Abstract: | The paper argues from first principles and with supporting related empirical evidence that
most of the final incidence of emissions taxes or tradable permits will fall on consumers of
greenhouse gas intensive products. This distributional outcome supports an emissions
reduction strategy of an emissions tax or auctioning the tradable permits, rather than gifting
permits in a grandfather arrangement to current polluters as was done in Europe and has
currency with proposals for Australia. Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change is a
global pollution problem that gives rise to a prisoner’s dilemma problem in which the global
cooperative solution in undermined by individual countries free-riding. Some of the issues and
challenges to be overcome to reach a cooperative global policy package are discussed,
including the different interests and perspectives of developed and developing countries. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/6770 |
| Institution/Association: | Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2008>2008 Conference (52nd), February 5-8, 2008, Canberra, Australia |
| Total Pages: | 20 |
| Collections: | 2008 Conference (52nd), February 5-8, 2008, Canberra, Australia
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