Equity and CO2 emissions distribution in climate change integrated assessment modelling

Nicola Cantore () and Emilio Padilla ()

No 7001, DEIAgra Working Papers from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Department of Agricultural Economics and Engineering

Abstract: Emissions distribution is a focus variable for the design of future international agreements to tackle global warming. This paper specifically analyses the future path of emissions distribution and its determinants in different scenarios. Whereas our analysis is driven by tools which are typically applied in the income distribution literature and which have recently been applied to the analysis of CO2 emissions distribution, a new methodological approach is that our study is driven by simulations run with a popular regionalised optimal growth climate change model over the 1995-2105 period. We find that the architecture of environmental policies, the implementation of flexible mechanisms and income concentration are key determinants of emissions distribution over time. In particular we find a robust positive relationship between measures of inequalities in the distribution of emissions and income and that their magnitude will essentially depend on technological change.

Keywords: Integrated assessment; Inequality; Emissions distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 D63 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-03, Revised 2007-05
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