Unilateral emissions mitigation, spillovers, and global learning

Shurojit Chatterji, Sayantan Ghosal, Sean Walsh and John Whalley

Working Papers from Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow

Abstract: What's the role of unilateral measures in global climate change mitigation in a post-Durban, post 2012 global policy regime? We argue that under conditions of preference heterogeneity, unilateral emissions mitigation at a subnational level may exist even when a nation is unwilling to commit to emission cuts. As the fraction of individuals unilaterally cutting emissions in a global strongly connected network of countries evolves over time, learning the costs of cutting emissions can result in the adoption of such activities globally and we establish that this will indeed happen under certain assumptions. We analyze the features of a policy proposal that could accelerate convergence to a low carbon world in the presence of global learning.

Keywords: Unilateral initiatives; mitigation; spillovers; global learning; technol- ogy transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F53 O33 Q54 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-11
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Journal Article: UNILATERAL EMISSIONS MITIGATION, SPILLOVERS, AND GLOBAL LEARNING (2014)
Working Paper: Unilateral Emissions Mitigation, Spillovers, and Global Learning (2013)
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