Sharing the Cost of Global Warming

Etienne Billette de Villemeur and Justin Leroux

No 10-04, Cahiers de recherche from HEC Montréal, Institut d'économie appliquée

Abstract: Due to meteorological factors, the distribution of the environmental damage due to climate change bears no relationship to that of global emissions. We argue in favor of offsetting this discrepancy, and propose a “global insurance scheme” to be financed according to countries’ responsibility for climate change. Because GHG decay very slowly, we argue that the actual burden of global warming should be shared on the basis of cumulated emissions, rather than sharing the expected costs of actual emissions as in a Pigovian taxation scheme. We characterize new versions of two well-known cost-sharing schemes by adapting the responsibility theory of Bossert and Fleurbaey (1996) to a context with externalities.

Keywords: Climate Change; Cost Sharing; Responsibility; Compensation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 D63 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2010-08
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