Sharing the burden for climate change mitigation in the Canadian federation

Christoph Böhringer, Nicholas Rivers, Thomas Rutherford and Randall Wigle

Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 48, issue 4, 1350-1380

Abstract: Dividing the burden for greenhouse gas abatement among the provinces has proven challenging in Canada and contributes to Canada's failure to limit emissions. This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to compare a number of rules for sharing the burden of emission reductions among Canadian provinces. Because of the substantial heterogeneity among Canadian provinces, these different rules imply significantly different relative abatement effort among provinces, and also significantly different welfare implications. We compare these archetypal burden sharing rules to existing provincial emission reduction commitments and find that none of the standard burden sharing rules comes close to existing commitments.

JEL-codes: C68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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