EQUITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF POSSIBLE CO2 TREATY PROPOSALS

Duane Chapman and Thomas Drennen

Contemporary Economic Policy, 1990, vol. 8, issue 3, 16-28

Abstract: The Montreal Protocol on chlorofluorocarbon control established an important precedent for global environmental treaties that include both developing countries and industrial countries. This paper evaluates seven possible treaty proposals to control carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Growth‐rate control proposals fail on effectiveness of control or on equity differences between developing countries and industrial countries. Complex proposals link policies in population growth, economic development, world energy taxation, and forestation. These complex proposals, which appear to be both effective and equitable, can defer or avoid CO2 doubling.

Date: 1990
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