Jevons’ paradox revisited: Implications for climate change

Navid Siami and Ralph Winter ()

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 206, issue C

Abstract: Improved fuel efficiency may raise the flow of carbon emissions, from Jevons’ paradox. We point out that it always raises the stock of total carbon emitted. If carbon capture and sequestration are improving over time, however, this paradox may be reversed.

Keywords: Climate change; Innovation; Exhaustible resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q30 Q54 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109955

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