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Supply Side Climate Policy and the Green Paradox

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  • Michael Hoel

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The focus of the green paradox literature has been either on demand-side climate policies or on effects of technological changes. The present paper addresses the question of whether there also might be some kind of green paradox related to supply-side policies, i.e. policies that per-manently remove some of the carbon resources. The conclusion is that there will no green paradox if supply-side climate policies are aimed at high-cost carbon reserves. If instead low-cost reserves are removed, the possibility that both early and total emissions increase cannot be ruled out. Hence, "wrong" supply-side climate policies may give a supply-side green paradox.

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Keywords: climate; green paradox;

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  1. Taran Fæhn & Cathrine Hagem & Lars Lindholt & Ståle Mæland & Knut Einar Rosendahl, 2013. "Climate policies in a fossil fuel producing country. Demand versus supply side policies," Discussion Papers 747, Research Department of Statistics Norway.
  2. Hendrik Ritter & Mark Schopf, 2013. "Unilateral Climate Policy: Harmful or even Disastrous?," Working Papers CIE 62, University of Paderborn, CIE Center for International Economics.
  3. Mark Schopf & Hendrik Ritter, 2012. "Reassessing the Green Paradox," FEMM Working Papers 120013, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management.

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