UNILATERAL EMISSIONS MITIGATION, SPILLOVERS, AND GLOBAL LEARNING

Shurojit Chatterji (), Sayantan Ghosal, Sean Walsh () and John Whalley ()
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Shurojit Chatterji: School of Economics, Singapore Management University, 90 Stamford Road, Singapore 178903, Singapore
Sean Walsh: 192 Cedarwoods Crescent, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2C 2J8, Canada
John Whalley: Department of Economics, Social Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5C2, Canada

Climate Change Economics (CCE), 2014, vol. 05, issue 03, 1-16

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. We establish that under certain assumptions, in a global strongly connected network of countries, learning the costs of switching to a low emissions activity can result in a universal adoption of such activities. 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; global learning; technology transfer; Q54; F53; Q55; O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Unilateral Emissions Mitigation, Spillovers, and Global Learning (2013)
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DOI: 10.1142/S2010007814500080

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