Economic analysis of the climate pledges of the Copenhagen Accord for the EU and other major countries

Energy Economics

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Saveyn, Bert ^a   Van Regemorter, Denise ^b   Ciscar, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Auctioning; Competitiveness; Copenhagen accord; Energy intensive industries; Green taxation; International climate policy

Indexed keywords

AUCTIONING; CLIMATE POLICY; COMPETITIVENESS; COPENHAGEN; ENERGY INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES; GREEN TAXATION;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GASES; TAXATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

COMPETITIVENESS; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL TAX; EUROPEAN UNION; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MACROECONOMICS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 80054958888     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.07.024     Document Type: Article

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