Climate Change and Uneven Development*

Bretschger, Lucas; Valente, Simone

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2011.01676.x

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“…It is evident that many low-income countries contribute little to cli-60 mate change but are most vulnerable to its effects. The effects of climate change and climate adaptation are biased in favor of the rich countries and to the disadvantage of the less developed (Bretschger and Valente, 2011;World Bank, 2010). This is the reason why climate mitigation is an effective means to avoid increasing inequalities in global wealth distribution.…”

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Prices vs. Equity in International Climate Policy: A Broad Perspective

Bretschger

Mollet

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractEffective climate policy can be achieved by implementing either a global uniform carbon price or a global cap and trade system. But depending on the allocation of tax revenues and initial pollution permits, the instruments have very different wealth implications for the individual countries. The paper highlights the distributional effects of climate policies by calculating and comparing emission budget allocations under three different schemes that are in line with a 2• C warming target. We calculate implicit carbon budgets up to 2050 under a globally uniform CO 2 price, a design proposed by Weitzman (2014). We then compare the allocation with the budget derived from equity principles by Bretschger (2013) and with emission budgets under egalitarian emission rights as proposed by BASIC (2011). Our results show that implicit burden sharing across countries varies substantially with the different policy regimes. Wealthy countries with low energy prices tend to obtain the highest emission budget under a price scheme while poor low-emission countries receive the highest budget under egalitarian emission rights. The budget positions of India and the US are illustrative for the conflicting country interests. JEL-Classification: Q58, Q53

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Prices vs. Equity in International Climate Policy: A Broad Perspective

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Mollet

2015

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“…(8). The growth of consumption in Country 2 becomes, see the Appendix 5 A similar treatment of technical progress in an international context is also used in Berlinschi and Daubanes (2012), where (labor) productivity in the "South" is a constant fraction of that in the "North. "…”

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“…The paper starts from the original idea of Schelling (1995), who discusses climate abatement costs and di¤erent policies to support developing countries. The framework is based on the literature on pollution and growth, in particular Withagen (1995), Michel and Rotillon (1995), Bovenberg and Smulders (1995), Smulders and Gradus (1996), Stokey (1998), Taylor (2005, 2010), and on the papers on climate change and growth, see Grimaud et al (2007), and Bretschger and Valente (2011). It is also related to the literature on natural exhaustible resources and growth, especially on Dasgupta and Heal (1974), Solow (1974), Stiglitz (1974), Barbier (1999), Scholz and Ziemes (1999), Xepapadeas (2006), Bretschger and Smulders (2007), and Peretto (2009), and in particular with the two-country resource models provided in Daubanes and Grimaud (2010) and Berlinschi and Daubanes (2012).…”

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Use Less, Pay More: Can Climate Policy Address the Unfortunate Event for Being Poor?

Bretschger

Suphaphiphat

2012

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractThe paper develops a two-region endogenous growth model with climate change a¤ecting the countries'capital stocks negatively. We compare two di¤erent policies aimed at supporting less developed countries: climate mitigation by rich countries, which diminishes the increase in stock pollution and hence capital depreciation, and income transfers in the tradition of development aid. Under a mild set of assumptions we …nd that active climate policies are more e¢ cient for rich economies and also, remarkably, better for poor countries than additonial development aid. The main reason is the di¤erence between the two policies with respect to their e¤ects on economic growth. The results are robust with respect to possible model extensions.

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“…Therefore, poor countries and persons in the global south will bear the worst consequences of climate change and its associated disturbances (Bretschger & Valente, 2011;Schellnhuber et al, 2013). In addition, global warming is projected to lower the level and growth of GDP and thus increase poverty, undermining progress towards achievement of the MDGs (Stern, 2007).…”

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Microfinance and Climate Change Impacts: The Case of Agroamigo in Brazil

Moser

Gonzalez

2015

Rev. adm. empres.

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This paper reports an empirical case study on the interface between microfinance and climate change actions. Climate change, which until recently seemed a luxury for the microfinance sector, now appears to be crucial for its future. For their low adaptive capacity, the millions of microfinance clients worldwide happen to be the most vulnerable to a changing climate. However, such an arena is still blurred from an academic viewpoint, and inexistent among Brazilian academia. Therefore, by investigating Brazil's largest rural MFI, Agroamigo, we aim at providing an empirical contribution to green microfinance. The main conclusion is that, albeit Agroamigo offers important links to climate change initiatives, it will need to take better account of specific vulnerabilities and risks to protect its portfolio and clients better from climate change impacts. KEYWORDS RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas | FGV-EAESP

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Climate Change and Uneven Development*

Cited by 45 publications

References 32 publications

Prices vs. Equity in International Climate Policy: A Broad Perspective

Prices vs. Equity in International Climate Policy: A Broad Perspective

Use Less, Pay More: Can Climate Policy Address the Unfortunate Event for Being Poor?

Microfinance and Climate Change Impacts: The Case of Agroamigo in Brazil

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