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Costs of reducing GHG emissions in Brazil

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  • Angelo Costa Gurgel
  • Sergey Paltsev

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During the 2009 Conference of the Parties meeting in Copenhagen, the Brazilian government announced voluntary targets to reduce GHG emissions, with the targets being reconfirmed in Cancun (2010) and in Durban (2011). An estimate is presented of the economic impact of alternative policies to achieve such targets, including actions to cut emissions from deforestation and agricultural production. A dynamic-recursive general equilibrium model of the world economy is used. The main results show that deforestation emissions in Brazil can be reduced at very low costs, but the cost of cutting emissions from agriculture and energy use may lead to a 2.3% drop in gross domestic product by 2020 if sector-specific carbon taxes are applied. Such costs may be reduced to 1.5% under a carbon trading scheme. The negative impact of carbon taxes on agricultural production indirectly reduces deforestation rates; therefore, directly cutting emissions from deforestation is the most cost-effective option since it does not adversely affect agricultural production, which continues to expand into low-yield, underutilized pastures and secondary forest areas.

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  • Angelo Costa Gurgel & Sergey Paltsev, 2014. "Costs of reducing GHG emissions in Brazil," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 209-223, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tcpoxx:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:209-223
    DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2013.835655
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    8. Julien Lefevre, 2016. "A description of the IMACLIM-BR model: a modeling framework to assess climate and energy policy in Brazil [Une description du modèle IMACLIM-BR: un outil de modélisation pour évaluer les politiques," Working Papers hal-01685947, HAL.
    9. Angelo Costa Gurgel & Claudia Octaviano & Sergey Paltsev, 2016. "Climate Change Policy In Brazil And Mexico: How Similar Are The Impacts And Solutions?," Anais do XLII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 42nd Brazilian Economics Meeting] 195, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    10. William Wills & Emilio Lebre La Rovere & Carolina Grottera & Giovanna Ferrazzo Naspolini & Gaëlle Le Treut & F. Ghersi & Julien Lefèvre & Carolina Burle Schmidt Dubeux, 2022. "Economic and social effectiveness of carbon pricing schemes to meet Brazilian NDC targets," Post-Print hal-03500923, HAL.
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    12. Garaffa, Rafael & Cunha, Bruno S.L. & Cruz, Talita & Bezerra, Paula & Lucena, André F.P. & Gurgel, Angelo C., 2021. "Distributional effects of carbon pricing in Brazil under the Paris Agreement," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).

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