ABSTRACT The Paris Agreement's very ambitious mitigation goals, notably to 'pursue
efforts' to limit warming to 1.5° C, imply that climate policy will remain a national affair for …

Even without internationally concerted action on climate change mitigation, there are
important incentives for countries to put a price on their domestic emissions, including public …

Imperfect altruism between generations may lead to insufficient capital accumulation. We
study the welfare consequences of taxing the rent on a fixed production factor, such as land …

Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other
fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future …

By taxing rents, governments can avoid a trade-off between productivity-enhancing public
investment and efficiency losses from raising funds. However, it is unclear whether the rents …

This chapter aims to analyse the normative-ethical assumptions implied in the structure and
scenarios of integrated assessment models (IAMs), as well as the IAM-based studies used in …

Deepening the problem analysis of the previous parts, Part III analyses both the Working
Group (WG) III contribution to the Assessment Reports (ARs) of the Intergovernmental Panel …

This chapter indicates the need for appropriate integrated economic assessments to support
climate policy-making. A normative point of departure for this is John Dewey's concept of a …