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The Structure of the Climate Debate

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    (UK Department of Economics, University of Sussex, UK
    Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    CESifo, Munich, Germany)

Abstract

First-best climate policy is a uniform carbon tax which gradually rises over time. Civil servants have complicated climate policy to expand bureaucracies, politicians to create rents. Environmentalists have exaggerated climate change to gain influence, other activists have joined the climate bandwagon. Opponents to climate policy have attacked the weaknesses in climate research. The climate debate is convoluted and polarized as a result, and climate policy complex. Climate policy should become easier and more rational as the Paris Agreement has shifted climate policy back towards national governments. Changing political priorities, austerity, and a maturing bureaucracy should lead to a more constructive climate debate.

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  • Richard S.J. Tol, 2016. "The Structure of the Climate Debate," Working Paper Series 09616, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
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