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Where is it Cheapest to Cut Carbon Emissions?

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  • David Stern

    (Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Canberra, Australia)

  • Ross Lambie

    (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Australia. Australian National University)

Abstract

The relative cost of carbon emissions reductions across regions depends on whether we measure cost by marginal or total cost, private or economy-wide cost, and using market or purchasing power parity exchange rates. If all countries are on the same marginal carbon abatement cost curve then lower marginal costs of abatement are associated with higher energy intensities and higher total costs of abatement in achieving proportional cuts in emissions, equal emissions per capita, or common global carbon price targets. We test this conjecture using the results of the GTEM computable general equilibrium model as presented in the climate change economics review conducted by the Australian Treasury Department. Rankings of countries by costs do differ depending on whether marginal or total cost is used. But some regions, including OPEC and the former USSR, have high marginal costs and high emissions intensities and, therefore, high total costs and others like the EU relatively low marginal and total costs. Under a global emissions trading regime real economy-wide costs of abatement are higher in developing economies with currencies valued below purchasing power parity and large differences between private and economy-wide costs such as India contributing to the high GDP losses experienced in those countries.

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  • David Stern & Ross Lambie, 2010. "Where is it Cheapest to Cut Carbon Emissions?," Environmental Economics Research Hub Research Reports 1063, Environmental Economics Research Hub, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
  • Handle: RePEc:een:eenhrr:1063
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    1. New EERH Research Reports
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2010-06-16 04:56:00
    2. Where is it Cheapest to Cut Carbon Emissions?
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2010-06-17 09:53:00
    3. Where is it Cheapest to Cut Carbon Emissions: Estimating Marginal Costs
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2010-06-20 09:37:00
    4. EERH Research Reports: June 2010
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2010-07-03 15:06:00
    5. Marginal CO2 Abatement Cost Curves from EMF22
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2010-12-17 13:57:00
    6. CSTS-TISS Workshop
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2011-08-03 17:42:00
    7. Stern and Enflo, Energy Economics
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2013-05-05 13:17:00
    8. Can Negotiating a Uniform Carbon Price Help to Internalize the Global Warming Externality?
      by David Stern in Stochastic Trend on 2013-11-25 09:11:00

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    Cited by:

    1. World Bank, 2011. "Climate Change and Fiscal Policy : A Report for APEC," World Bank Publications - Reports 2734, The World Bank Group.
    2. Howes, Stephen & Wyrwoll, Paul, 2012. "Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia," ADBI Working Papers 369, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    3. Stephen Howes & Paul Wyrwoll, 2012. "Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia," Working Papers id:5059, eSocialSciences.

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    Keywords

    Climate change; costs; developing countries; computable general equilibrium;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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