CICERO Working Papers: Recent submissions
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Poland’s renewable energy policy mix: European influence and domestic soap opera
(2017:01, Working paper, 2017)Poland’s energy mix is dominated by indigenous coal, and since the country joined the European Union in 2004 it has been clear that it will do much to safeguard its domestic coal sector and resist pressures for ambitious ... -
Business as UNusual: the implications of fossil divestment and green bonds for financial flows, economic growth and energy market
(2016:01, Working paper, 2016)Green bonds and fossil divestment has emerged as a bottom-up approach to climate action within the business community. Recent pledges by large banks and institutional investors have reached levels that have the potential ... -
Nuclear Energy: Rise, Fall and Resurrection
(2006:01, Working paper, 2006)This paper charts the rise, fall and potential resurrection of the civilian nuclear power industry over the past fifty years in the UK. The role of actors, interests, institutions and ideas are explored using Baumgartner ... -
Sovereign Wealth Funds as a New Instrument of Climate Protection Policy? A Case Study of Norway as a Pioneer of Ethical Guidelines for Investment Policy
(2008:03, Working paper, 2008)Norway’s abundance of natural resources is the deciding factor in explaining how the north European state ranks among countries worldwide with the highest standard of living. A sovereign wealth fund was established in 1990 ... -
Norsk gjennomføring av Klimakonvensjonen
(1997:03, Working paper, 1997)Klimakonvensjonen har i tiden etter 1992 utviklet seg til å bli ett av de mest betydningsfulle resultater fra Rio-møtet. I juni 1996 hadde 159 land underskrevet Klimakonvensjonen, noe som i seg selv indikerer dens betydning. ... -
From the Kyoto Protocol to the fossil fuel market: A model analysis
(1998:09, Working paper, 1998)Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol will change the energy markets. The resulting price shifts will represent important terms-of-trade changes. The paper explores how the different countries’ relationship to the fossil ... -
The Impact of Trial Runs on the Acceptability of Pigouvian Taxes: Experimental Evidence
(2011:01, Working paper, 2011)This paper examines the political difficulty of enacting welfare-enhancing Pigouvian taxes. Using referenda in a market experiment with externalities, we investigate the effect of trial periods on the acceptability of two ... -
Nasjonal klimapolitikk i lys av Kyoto-protokollen
(1998:12, Working paper, 1998)Artikkelen drøfter valg og dosering av klimapolitiske tiltak på den nasjonale arena i et land som er bundet av en utslippsforpliktelse i Kyoto-protokollen. Den vanlige antakelsen om at en klimagassavgift skal være lik ... -
Strategies for controlling pollution from vehicular emissions in Beijing
(2002:04, Working paper, 2002)This paper describes the severe situation of vehicular emission pollution in Beijing, and discusses the following mitigation strategies: improving fuel quality, controlling the exhaust from new vehicles, controlling the ... -
Should developing countries take on binding commitments in a climate agreement? A cost-benefit analysis
(2003:09, Working paper, 2003)This paper explores the costs and benefits for all parties to a future climate agreement of developing countries taking on binding commitments. Such commitments would allow developing countries to participate in emissions ... -
Energy and environment in Asia: Transnational and global issues
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Reduced damage to health and environment from energy saving: A methodology for integrated assessment applied to a case study in Hungary
(1998:13, Working paper, 1998)Environmental problems have different characteristics in terms of space and time. Noise, for instance, affects only those being close to the source, and the problem is instantly solved for these if the source is removed. ... -
Can the Clean Development Mechanism attain both cost-effectiveness and sustainable development objectives?
(2001:08, Working paper, 2001)The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), as defined in the Kyoto Protocol, has two objectives: to promote sustainable development in host developing countries, and to improve global cost-effectiveness by assisting developed ... -
The Kyoto Protocol and the fossil fuel markets under different emission trading regimes
(2000:10, Working paper, 2000)The consequences of the Kyoto Protocol for the fossil fuel markets depend on which policy instruments that are used in order to reach the emission targets. This paper uses a numerical model to assess the significance of ... -
Dominant agents and intertemporal emissions trading
(2004:11, Working paper, 2004)In this paper we analyze how restricting intertemporal trading by prohibiting borrowing of emission permits affects the ability of a dominant agent to exploit its market power, and the consequences this has for the ... -
Energy and sustainable urban transport development in China: Challenges and solutions
(2002:02, Working paper, 2002)This paper presents an overview of urban road transport development and challenges in energy consumption in China. It relates sustainable urban road transport development with energy consumption and environmental management. ... -
National climate policy, firm survival, and investments
(2000:08, Working paper, 2000)In this paper we consider how to design a national tradable quota system to reduce emissions of climate gases when the regulator is concerned about the survival of specific firms. The problem is studied using a two-period ... -
The Norwegian fast start climate finance contribution
(2013:02, Working paper, 2013)This Working Paper is part of a series of studies initiated by The Overseas Development Institute, ODI, scrutinizing how developing countries are defining, delivering and reporting on fast start finance - FSF. Norwegian ... -
Regime lessons from ocean dumping of radioactive waste
(1994:09, Working paper, 1994)Standard explanations for international environmental regime change do not account for the 1993 ban by states on ocean dumping of radioactive waste. This significant development was in large part caused by a trans-national ...