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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Reducing coal subsidies and trade barriers: their contribution to greenhouse gas abatement |
Author: | Anderson, K. McKibbin, W. |
Citation: | Environment and Development Economics, 2000; 5(4):457-481 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
ISSN: | 1355-770X 1469-4395 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kym Anderson and Warwick J. McKibbin |
Abstract: | International negotiations for an agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases have not produced cost-effective policies for reducing emissions, not least because they are unlikely to prevent ‘leakage’ through a re-location of carbon-intensive activities to poorer countries. An alternative or supplementary approach that is more likely to achieve at least some emission reductions, and at the same time generate national and global economic benefits rather than costs, involves lowering coal subsidies and trade barriers. Past coal policies have encouraged excessive production of coal in a number of industrial countries and excessive coal consumption in numerous developing and transition economies. This paper documents those distortions and outlines the circumstances under which their reform (currently under way in some countries) could both improve the economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions globally. It then quantifies the effects on economic activity as well as global carbon emissions, using the G-Cubed multi-country general equilibrium model of the world economy. Both the gains in economic efficiency and the reductions in carbon dioxide emissions that could result from such reforms are found to be substantial—a ‘no regrets’ outcome or win–win Pareto improvement for the economy and the environment. |
Keywords: | Coal subsidies trade and environment carbon emissions global warming greenhouse gases IPCC |
Description: | Reprinted in International Trade and the Environment, edited by J. Dean for the International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Nov 2000 |
Rights: | Copyright © 2000 Cambridge University Press |
DOI: | 10.1017/S1355770X00000279 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x00000279 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 Economics publications |
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