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Determining Project-Based Emissions Baselines with Incomplete Information

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Fischer, Carolyn () (Resources for the Future)

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Project-based mechanisms for emissions reductions credits, like the Clean Development Mechanism, pose important challenges for policy design because of several inherent characteristics. Participation is voluntary. Evaluating reductions requires assigning a baseline for a counterfactual that cannot be measured. Some investments have both economic and environmental benefits and might occur anyway. Uncertainty surrounds both emissions and investment returns. Parties to the project are likely to have more information than the certifying authority. The certifying agent is limited in its ability to design a contract that would reveal investment intentions. As a result, rules for baseline determination may be systematically biased to overallocate, and they also risk creating inefficient investment incentives. This paper evaluates, in a situation with asymmetric information, the efficacy of the main baseline rules currently under consideration: historical emissions, average industry emissions, and expected emissions.

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Paper provided by Resources For the Future in its series Discussion Papers with number dp-02-23.

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Keywords: climate policy; Clean Development Mechanism; baseline emissions; asymmetric information;

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D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy

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  1. Fischer, Carolyn & Bernard, Alain & Vielle, Marc, 2001. "Is There a Rationale for Rebating Environmental Levies?," Discussion Papers dp-01-31-, Resources For the Future. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Suzi Kerr & Catherine Leining, 2003. "Joint Implementation in Climate Change Policy," Working Papers 03_04, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. [Downloadable!]
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