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Climate policy and equity principles: fair burden sharing in a dynamic world

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The paper argues that negotiation costs can prevent the international community from finding a new international climate agreement. To define a feasible way of facilitating the negotiation process, I analyze basic equity principles and their relationship to climate policy and economic development. Based on the most relevant principles, I propose a general synthetic rule for burden sharing in international climate policy. The rule avoids complexity and comprises both egalitarian and cost-sharing aspects, which appears to be crucial for achieving a climate agreement. Carbon budgets for the different countries are calculated under different parameter assumptions.

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  • Bretschger, Lucas, 2013. "Climate policy and equity principles: fair burden sharing in a dynamic world," Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(5), pages 517-536, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:endeec:v:18:y:2013:i:05:p:517-536_00
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    1. Zhang, Da & Peng, Hantang & Zhang, Lin, 2023. "Share of polluting input as a sufficient statistic for burden sharing," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
    2. Lucas Bretschger, 2017. "Equity and the convergence of nationally determined climate policies," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 19(1), pages 1-14, January.
    3. Borissov, Kirill & Bretschger, Lucas, 2022. "Optimal carbon policies in a dynamic heterogeneous world," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    4. Bretschger, Lucas, 2017. "Climate policy and economic growth," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 1-15.
    5. Lucas Bretschger & Alexandra Vinogradova, 2015. "Equitable and effective climate policy: Integrating less developed countries into a global climate agreement," International Economics and Economic Policy, Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 437-467, October.
    6. Lucas Bretschger & Lin Zhang, 2014. "Going beyond tradition: Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China," CER-ETH Economics working paper series 14/201, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich.
    7. Gersbach, Hans & Hummel, Noemi, 2016. "A development-compatible refunding scheme for a climate treaty," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 139-168.
    8. Moritz A. Drupp & Ulrike Kornek & Jasper N. Meya & Lutz Sager, 2021. "Inequality and the Environment: The Economics of a Two-Headed Hydra," CESifo Working Paper Series 9447, CESifo.
    9. Sami Hautakangas & Markku Ollikainen, 2019. "Nutrient Trading Between Wastewater Treatment Plants in the Baltic Sea Region," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 73(2), pages 533-556, June.
    10. Hans Gersbach & Marie-Catherine Riekhof, 2022. "Technology Treaties And Climate Change," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(02), pages 1-42, May.
    11. José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez & Jordi Teixidó-Figueras & Cori Vilella, 2016. "The global carbon budget: a conflicting claims problem," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 136(3), pages 693-703, June.
    12. Lucas Bretschger, 2018. "Greening Economy, Graying Society," CER-ETH Press, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich, edition 2, number 18-001.
    13. Wolfgang Buchholz & Alexander Haupt & Wolfgang Peters, 2016. "Equity as a Prerequisite for Stability of Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 65(1), pages 61-78, September.
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    15. Bretschger, Lucas & Zhang, Lin, 2017. "Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 1-19.
    16. Martin Kesternich & Andreas Löschel & Andreas Ziegler, 2021. "Negotiating weights for burden sharing rules in international climate negotiations: an empirical analysis," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 23(2), pages 309-331, April.
    17. Adam Rose & Dan Wei & Noah Miller & Toon Vandyck, 2017. "Equity, Emissions Allowance Trading and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Springer, vol. 1(3), pages 203-232, October.
    18. Kesternich, Martin & Löschel, Andreas & Ziegler, Andreas, 2014. "Negotiating weights for burden sharing rules among heterogeneous parties: Empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations," ZEW Discussion Papers 14-031, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.

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