Climate policy and nonrenewable resources : the green paradox and beyond / edited by Karen Pittel, Frederick van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Too rapidly rising carbon taxes or the introduction of subsidies for renewable energies induce owners of fossil fuel reserves to increase their extraction rates for fear of their reserves becoming worthless. Fossil fuel use is thus brought forward. The resulting acceleration of global warming and counter-productivity of well-intended climate policy has been coined the Green Paradox. This volume presents a range of studies extending the basic analysis to allow for clean energy alternatives, dirty energy alternatives, and the intricate strategic issues between different countries on the globe.

The green paradox : a mirage? / Karen Pittel, Rick van der Ploeg, and Cees Withagen -- Supply-side climate policy and the green paradox / Michael Hoel -- The green paradox as a supply phenomenon / Julien Daubanes and Pierre Lasserre -- The green paradox under imperfect substitutability between clean and dirty fuels / Ngo Van Long -- Fossil fuels, backstop technologies, and imperfect substitution / Gerard van der Meijden -- Innovation and the green paradox / Ralph A. Winter -- Resource extraction and backstop technologies in general equilibrium / Ngo Van Long and Frank Stèahler -- Does a future rise in carbon taxes harm the climate? / Florian Habermacher and Gebhard Kirchgèassner -- The impacts of announcing and delaying green policies / Darko Jus and Volker Meier -- Going full circle : demand-side constraints to the green paradox / Corrado Di Maria, Ian Lange, and Edwin van der Werf -- Quantifying intertemporal emissions leakage / Carolyn Fischer and Stephen Salant.

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