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DOI | 10.1007/s10584-018-2162-x |
Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies | |
Green, Fergus1; Denniss, Richard2 | |
2018-09-01 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATIC CHANGE |
ISSN | 0165-0009 |
EISSN | 1573-1480 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 150页码:73-87 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England; Australia |
英文摘要 | Proponents of climate change mitigation face difficult choices about which types of policy instrument(s) to pursue. The literature on the comparative evaluation of climate policy instruments has focused overwhelmingly on economic analyses of instruments aimed at restricting demand for greenhouse gas emissions (especially carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes) and, to some extent, on instruments that support the supply of or demand for substitutes for emissions-intensive goods, such as renewable energy. Evaluation of instruments aimed at restricting the upstream supply of commodities or products whose downstream consumption causes greenhouse gas emissionssuch as fossil fuelshas largely been neglected in this literature. Moreover, analyses that compare policy instruments using both economic and political (e.g. political feasibility and feedback) criteria are rare. This article aims to help bridge both of these gaps. Specifically, the article demonstrates that restrictive supply-side policy instruments (targeting fossil fuels) have numerous characteristic economic and political advantages over otherwise similar restrictive demand-side instruments (targeting greenhouse gases). Economic advantages include low administrative and transaction costs, higher abatement certainty (due to therelative ease of monitoring, reporting and verification), comprehensive within-sector coverage, some advantageous price/efficiency effects, the mitigation of infrastructure lock-in risks, and mitigation of the green paradox. Political advantages include the superior potential to mobilise public support for supply-side policies, the conduciveness of supply-side policies to international policy cooperation, and the potential to bring different segments of the fossil fuel industry into a coalition supportive of such policies. In light of these attributes, restrictive supply-side policies squarely belong in the climate policy toolkit. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000444247500006 |
WOS关键词 | ENVIRONMENTAL-POLICY ; INSTRUMENT CHOICE ; UNITED-STATES ; REFLECTIONS ; EMISSIONS ; ENERGY |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/30054 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, London, England; 2.Australia Inst, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Green, Fergus,Denniss, Richard. Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies[J]. CLIMATIC CHANGE,2018,150:73-87. |
APA | Green, Fergus,&Denniss, Richard.(2018).Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies.CLIMATIC CHANGE,150,73-87. |
MLA | Green, Fergus,et al."Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies".CLIMATIC CHANGE 150(2018):73-87. |
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