Publication
Dec 2010
This paper asks why the tragic American impasse in reducing carbon emissions has occurred, while the EU has succeeded in implementing carbon regulation. Both cases have involved negotiations between relatively rich "Green" regions and relatively poor "Brown" (carbon-intensive) regions, with success contingent on two factors: the inter-regional disparity in carbon intensity, which proxies the extra mitigation cost burden for the Brown region, and the compensating incentives provided by the Green region.
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Author | David Wheeler |
Series | CGD Working Papers |
Issue | 232 |
Publisher | Center for Global Development (CGD) |
Copyright | © 2010 Center for Global Development (CGD) |