Towards a more effective climate policy on international trade
dc.contributor.author | Dietzenbacher, E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cazcarro, I. | |
dc.contributor.author | Arto, I. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-23T09:45:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-23T09:45:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nature Communications 11(1) : 1130(2020) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/44209 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the literature on the attribution of responsibilities for greenhouse gas emissions, two accounting methods have been widely discussed: production-based accounting (PBA) and consumption-based accounting (CBA). It has been argued that an accounting framework for attributing responsibilities should credit actions contributing to reduce global emissions and should penalize actions increasing them. Neither PBA nor CBA satisfy this principle. Adapting classical Ricardian trade theory, we consider ex post measurement and propose a scheme for assigning credits and penalties. Their size is determined by how much CO2 emissions are saved globally due to trade. This leads to the emission responsibility allotment (ERA) for assigning responsibilities. We illustrate the differences between ERA and PBA and CBA by comparing their results for 41 countries and regions between 1995 2009. The Paris Agreement (COP21) proposed new market mechanisms; we argue that ERA is well suited to measure and evaluate their overall mitigation impact. © 2020, The Author(s). | |
dc.description.sponsorship | I.A. and I.C. thank the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, through the project Modeling and analysis of low carbon transitions (MALCON, RTI2018-099858-A-I00), and the Spanish State Research Agency through BC3 Maria de Maeztu excellence accreditation MDM-2017-0714. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/RTI2018-099858-A-I00 | |
dc.relation | ES/1PE/RTI2018-099858-A-I00 | |
dc.relation | EUS/BERC/BERC.2018-2021 | |
dc.relation | ES/1PE/MDM-2017-0714 | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/MDM-2017-0714 | |
dc.relation.uri | https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14837-5 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ | |
dc.title | Towards a more effective climate policy on international trade | |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.rights.holder | (c) 2020, The Author(s).This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing,adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the orig | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-020-14837-5 |
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