Using importers’ windfall savings from oil subsidy reform to enhance international cooperation on climate policies

Climatic Change

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 465-472

  Jakob, Michael ^a,b   Hilaire, Jérôme ^b  

^a MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

CLIMATE POLICY; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FOSSIL ENERGY; LOW-CARBON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; WORLD MARKET;

OIL SHALE;

ENERGY MARKET; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOSSIL FUEL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RECYCLING; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 84937516913     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1406-2     Document Type: Article

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