Leveling the carbon playing field : international competition and US climate policy design / Trevor Houser ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houser, Trevor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy--United States--Evaluation.

Climatic changes.

Greenhouse gas mitigation--Government policy--United States.

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Climatic changes--Government policy--International cooperation.

Greenhouse gas mitigation--International cooperation.

Carbon taxes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Peterson Institute for International Economics : World Resources Institute, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The study estimates that free trade could reduce the number of people earning less than $2 per day by about 500 million over 15 years. This would cut the world poverty level by 25 percent. Cline judges that the developing countries were right to risk collapse of the Doha Round at the Cancun ministerial meeting in September 2003 by insisting on much deeper liberalization of agriculture than the industrial countries were then willing to offer.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter One Introduction: How Climate and Competitiveness Fit Together""; ""Background""; ""Identifying Vulnerable Industries""; ""A Broader View of Competitiveness?""; ""Options for US Policy Design""; ""Chapter Two Cost Containment Mechanisms""; ""Price Caps""; ""Borrowing and Banking Allowances""; ""Free Allocation of Allowances""; ""Tax Credits""; ""Offsets""; ""Exemptions""; ""Containing Noncarbon Costs""; ""Chapter Three Trade Measures""; ""Designing a Trade Measure""; ""Scenarios for Implementation""

""Effects on US Producers""""Implications for International Engagement""; ""Chapter Four Coordinated International Action ""; ""Prospects for International Engagement: The Case of China ""; ""Models for Cooperation on Industrial Emissions""; ""Need for US Leadership""; ""Scope for International Agreement""; ""Conclusion""; ""Cost Containment Mechanisms""; ""Trade Measures""; ""Coordinated International Action""; ""Looking Forward""; ""References""; ""Glossary""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39713-X

9786611397135

0-88132-490-6

1-4356-5538-9

OCLC:

471126182