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Reducing Coal Subsidies and Trade Barriers: Their Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Abatement

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McKibbin, W.J.
Anderson, K.

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International negotiations for an agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases are unlikely to produce concrete and comprehensive policies for effective emission reductions in the near term, not least because the policy measures being considered are economically very costly to major industries in rich countries and are unlikely to prevent 'leakage' through a re-location of carbon-intensive activities to poorer countries. An alternative or supplementary approach that is more likely to achieve carbon and methane emission reductions, and at the same time generate national and global economic benefits rather than costs, involves lowering coal subsidies and trade barriers. Past coal policies which encouraged excessive production of coal in a number of industrial countries and excessive coal consumption in numerous developing and transition economies are currently under review and in some cases are being reformed. This paper documents those distortions and outlines the circumstances under which their reform could not only improve the economy but also lower greenhouse gas emissions globally.

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Paper provided by Brookings Institution - Working Papers in its series Papers with number 135.

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  5. Anderson, Kym, 1995. "The political economy of coal subsidies in Europe," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 23(6), pages 485-496, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. McKibbin, W.J. & Wilcoxen, P.J., 1995. "Economic Implications of Greenhouse Gas Policy," Papers 116, Brookings Institution - Working Papers.
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  7. Anderson, Kym & Peng, Chao Yang, 1998. "Feeding and fueling China in the 21st century," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 26(8), pages 1413-1429, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Saunders, C. & Roningen, V., 2001. "Trade And The Environment. Linking A Partial Equilibrium Trade Model With Production Systems And Their Environmental Consequences," International Trade in Livestock Products Symposium, January 18-19, 2001, Auckland, New Zealand 14552, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium. [Downloadable!]
  2. Warwick J. McKibbin & Peter J. Wilcoxen, 1998. "Global Emissions Trading: Prospects and Pitfalls," Economics and Environment Network Working Papers 9801, Australian National University, Economics and Environment Network. [Downloadable!]
  3. Blackman, Allen & Nelson, Per-Kristian & Mathis, Mitchell, 2001. "The Greening of Development Economics: A Survey," Discussion Papers dp-01-08, Resources For the Future. [Downloadable!]
  4. Colyer, Dale, 2002. "Environmental Impacts Of Agricultural Trade Under Nafta," Conference Papers 19104, West Virginia University, Department of Agricultural Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
  5. Warwick J. McKibbin & Peter J. Wilcoxen, 2003. "Climate Policy and Uncertainty: The Roles of Adaptation versus Mitigation," Economics and Environment Network Working Papers 0306, Australian National University, Economics and Environment Network. [Downloadable!]
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