Gusbin, D.
Klaassen, G
Kouvaritakis, N
This paper examines the potential costs of a ceiling on the use of flexibility mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol using POLES, a partial equilibrium model of the world energy system. The results suggest that if emission trading were restricted to Annex I countries, halving the traded volume would increase costs by 11 billion $/year. If emission trading were to operate at a global level, reducing the trade to half the perfect market volume would increase annual costs by 12 billion $/year. Global carbon emissions might however be 1% lower. The sensitivity of the results is discussed. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Bibliographic reference |
Gusbin, D. ; Klaassen, G ; Kouvaritakis, N. Costs of a ceiling on Kyoto flexibility. In: Energy Policy, Vol. 27, no. 14, p. 833-844 (1999) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/43835 |