Climate change policy: Quantifying uncertainties for damages and optimal carbon taxes

Energy Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 415-429

  Roughgarden, Tim ^a   Schneider, Stephen H ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate policy; Greenhouse gas abatement; Integrated assessment of climate change; Optimal carbon tax

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL CARBON TAX;

CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TAXATION;

ENERGY POLICY;

CARBON TAX; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS;

EID: 0032759573     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(99)00030-0     Document Type: Article

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