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Where in the world is it cheapest to cut carbon emissions?

Date

Authors

Stern, David

Pezzey, John (Jack)

Lambie, N Ross

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Countries with low marginal costs of abating carbon emissions may have high total costs, and vice versa, for a given climate mitigation policy. This may help to explain different countries' policy stances on climate mitigation. We hypothesize that, under

Keywords

Keywords: abatement cost; carbon emission; climate change; environmental economics; environmental policy; meta-analysis; reliability analysis; China; Europe; India; United States Carbon emissions; Climate change; Marginal abatement cost; Meta-analysis

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62880

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-8489.2011.00576.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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