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Are Sub-National Agreements for Carbon Abatement Effective?
- Source :
- Energies (19961073); Jul2020, Vol. 13 Issue 14, p3675, 1p, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Although national commitments to the Paris Climate Accord have waned, carbon mitigation by sub-national entities is on the rise globally. We examine the effectiveness of sub-national jurisdictions (e.g., states, provinces, cities) in collectively enacting greenhouse gas abatement strategies. We develop a simple model to explore the conditions under which an agreement among sub-national jurisdictions within a country may lead to substantial carbon abatement relative to a national policy determined through majority rule. We find that, in the absence of a functional national policy response, a coordinated sub-national agreement can generate meaningful abatement. This could form an important stopgap measure in the absence of better alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GOVERNMENT policy
CARBON
GREENHOUSE gases
CLIMATOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19961073
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 14
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Energies (19961073)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144754198
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143675