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Global warming and the green paradox: a review of adverse effects of climate policies
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This article examines the possible adverse effects of well-intended climate policies. A weak Green Paradox arises if the announcement of a future carbon tax or a sufficiently fast rising carbon tax encourages fossil fuel owners to extract reserves more aggressively, thus exacerbating global warming. We argue that such policies may also encourage more fossil fuel to be locked in the crust of the earth, which can offset the adverse effects of the weak Green Paradox. We show that a subsidy on cl...
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Series:
- OxCarre Papers
- Publication date:
- 2013-07-30
- Paper number:
- 116
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1143746
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2020-12-15
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- 2013
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- Copyright 2013 The Author(s)
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