Comparing the Climate Policy Performance of Emerging Economies

Never, Babette; Betz, Joachim

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.016

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“…As pointed out by Pettersson et al (2014), the CO 2 convergence research addressing cross-country patterns has so far devoted little attention to the underlying explanations to different emission growth paths, including the role of public policy measures and industrial structure (see also Never and Betx, 2014). The distribution of CO 2 emissions is strongly related to the structure of a country's economy, and this hinges on that country's natural endowments (e.g., fossil fuel reserves), development level and its comparative advantage in the production of various goods.…”

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confidence: 99%

Convergence of carbon dioxide performance across Swedish industrial sectors: An environmental index approach

2015

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Keywords: Convergence Carbon dioxide emission intensity Industry SwedenThe overall objective of the paper is to analyze convergence of CO 2 emission intensity across manufacturing sectors in Sweden. Our approach differs from previous work on carbon convergence in that it employs a theoretical framework to construct a CO 2 performance index, which explicitly takes into account that industrial firms produce good as well as bad outputs. This index is then used as the dependent variable in a growth-type regression equation. We employ a data set covering 14 industrial sectors over the time period 1990-2008. The results suggest the presence of conditional β-convergence in CO 2 performance among the industrial sectors in Sweden. Moreover, the speed of convergence varies significantly in the sense that the higher the capital intensity is, the lower is the convergence rate to the different steady states. This is likely to reflect the importance of -and in part the costs associated with -capital turnover to achieve a transition towards lower CO 2 emission paths.

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Section: Background To the Co 2 Convergence Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Convergence of carbon dioxide performance across Swedish industrial sectors: An environmental index approach

2015

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“…Existing research indicates that the passage of climate laws is influenced by a combination of international factors, such as treaty obligations, and country-specific domestic factors, such as the institutional context or the energy-economic situation (Never and Betz, 2014;Falkner, 2013;Bernstein and Cashore, 2012;Busch et al, 2005 andKern et al, 2001). Yet until now there has been no attempt to explain systematically and in a statistically robust manner what drives the growing inclination to legislate on climate change.…”

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The political economy of passing climate change legislation: Evidence from a survey

Fankhauser

Gennaioli

Collins

2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…The emergence of climate legislation can be explained by a combination of domestic factors, such as the energy-economic context and the interests of domestic actors, and international factors, such as treaty obligations (Falkner 2013, Never andBetz 2014). Oates and Portney (2005), Congleton (1992) and Hahn (1990) analyse domestic environmental policy and emphasise the crucial role of political institutions and national interest groups (see also Never 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%