The Potential for Mitigating Short-lived Climate Pollutants

Steffen Kallbekken and Stine Aakre

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2018, vol. 12, issue 2, 264-283

Abstract: Climate policy has received considerable attention from environmental economists for more than two decades. Although the international climate regime covers all greenhouse gases not covered under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, climate policy and most economics research have focused on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. With the lack of progress on establishing effective global cooperation regarding CO2 emissions, short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as black carbon, tropospheric ozone, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons have recently been placed higher on the climate policy agenda. Although economists have generally not actively participated in the current policy debate about SLCPs, there has been much economics research on SLCPs or closely related topics. Economists have conducted substantial research on the valuation of non-CO2 gases, the estimation of abatement costs, and policies for regulating multiple pollutants simultaneously. Additional issues that would benefit from economics research include the political economy of SLCP mitigation and the establishment of (separate) international agreements to mitigate SLCPs.

Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/reep/rey002 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:renvpo:v:12:y:2018:i:2:p:264-283.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy is currently edited by Robert Stavins

More articles in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy from Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().