Abatement cost curves: a viable management tool for enabling the achievement of win?win waste reduction strategies?

Beaumont, Nicola

doi:10.1016/s0301-4797(04)00046-5

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“…Their usage goes beyond climate mitigation: for instance, similar depictions have been used to describe available options to reduce energy consumption (e.g., Jackson, 1991), waste production (Beaumont and Tinch, 2004) and water consumption .…”

Section: Continuous Vs Measure-explicit Mac Curvesmentioning

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Marginal abatement cost curves and the optimal timing of mitigation measures

Vogt-Schilb

Hallegatte

2014

Energy Policy

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Decision makers facing abatement targets need to decide which abatement measures to implement, and in which order. Measure-explicit marginal abatement cost curves depict the cost and abating potential of available mitigation options. Using a simple intertemporal optimization model, we demonstrate why this information is not sufficient to design emission reduction strategies. Because the measures required to achieve ambitious emission reductions cannot be implemented overnight, the optimal strategy to reach a short-term target depends on longer-term targets. For instance, the best strategy to achieve European's -20% by 2020 target may be to implement some expensive, high-potential, and long-to-implement options required to meet the -75% by 2050 target. Using just the cheapest abatement options to reach the 2020 target can create a carbonintensive lock-in and make the 2050 target too expensive to reach. Designing mitigation policies requires information on the speed at which various measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions can be implemented, in addition to the information on the costs and potential of such measures provided by marginal abatement cost curves. HighlightsClassification of existing Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACC) MACCs do not provide separated data on the speed at which measures can be implemented Optimal measures to reach a short-term target depend on longer-term targets Unique carbon price or aggregated emission-reduction target may be insufficient Room for short-term sectoral policies if agents are myopic or governments cannot commit .N characterized by their maximum potential Ai and their abatement cost ci, ranked from the least to the most expensive. This curves stands for a given date T. We explain why the optimal mitigation strategy to reach a target X at T is not to implement exclusively the measures 1..4 cheaper than Y.

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Section: Continuous Vs Measure-explicit Mac Curvesmentioning

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Marginal abatement cost curves and the optimal timing of mitigation measures

Vogt-Schilb

Hallegatte

2014

Energy Policy

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“…While some strategists, researchers, and technology developers concentrate their efforts on elimination or reduction of waste from the source, others attempt to address the issue by looking at how the waste generated will not be released into the environment but reused or recycled. Many scholars have reviewed waste reduction/minimization strategies and practices [1,6,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Waste reduction technologies' classification varies significantly.…”

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Sustainability Issues in Innovative Waste Reduction Technology Adoption and Assimilation

Dunmade¹

2013

IJEPP

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Increasing number of innovative waste reduction technologies are continuously being developed across various industrial sectors. Adoption and assimilation of proven waste reduction technologies can lead to significant resource savings, cost reduction, protection of biodiversity, and environmental conservation. However, transfer and adoption of technologies either across industrial sectors or geographical jurisdictions may pose enormous challenges to the adopters. In this study, issues affecting successful adoption and assimilation of waste reduction technologies from developed countries to developing countries and from one industrial sector to another were examined. Potential solution based on empirical study were also proposed. The study involved extensive literature survey and analysis of adoption procedures used by a number of technology adopters observed. It was discovered that the sustainability of waste reduction technology adopted depends on the fitness of the technology to the overall corporate success strategy, its compatibility with the corporate culture, availability of enabling operational infrastructure, sustained socio-political interest, and lifecycle cost of the technology.

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“…Murty and Kumar (2003) estimate the output distance function of India's manufacturing industry using the stochastic parametric approach and come to the conclusion that the technical efficiency of firms increases with the intensity of environmental regulation and the water conservation efforts, which supports the Porter hypothesis about environmental regulation. Beaumont and Tinch (2004) find that the abatement cost curve methodology proves to be a valuable management tool in identifying barriers to achieving the win-win state, or at least win-draw scenario for industry and the environment, and also in providing future direction for the waste management strategy. Cerin (2006) supports Porter hypothesis and finds the private incentives to explore the win-win development by applying the Coase theorem that emphasizes transaction costs and property rights.…”

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Dynamic Activity Analysis Model Based Win-Win Development Forecasting Under the Environmental Regulation in China

Chen

Härdle

2012

SSRN Journal

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SUMMARYPorter Hypothesis states that environmental regulation may lead to win-win opportunities, that is, improve the productivity and reduce the undesirable output simultaneously. Based on directional distance function, this paper proposes a novel dynamic activity analysis model to forecast the possibilities of win-win development in Chinese Industry between 2009 and 2049. The evidence reveals that the appropriate energy-saving and emission-abating regulation will result in both the improvement in net growth of potential output and the steadily increasing growth of total factor productivity. This favors Porter Hypothesis.

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Abatement cost curves: a viable management tool for enabling the achievement of win?win waste reduction strategies?

Cited by 9 publications

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Marginal abatement cost curves and the optimal timing of mitigation measures

Marginal abatement cost curves and the optimal timing of mitigation measures

Sustainability Issues in Innovative Waste Reduction Technology Adoption and Assimilation

Dynamic Activity Analysis Model Based Win-Win Development Forecasting Under the Environmental Regulation in China

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