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Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances
(2011-05)
A personal carbon allowance (PCA) scheme targets emissions from individual consumption and allocates allowances directly to individuals by dividing the carbon budget on a per capita basis. In this study we analyse the ...
Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation
(2009-12-08)
We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of
climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation.
While mitigation of ...
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(2010-03-29)
By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing
rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not
rank the rule favoring their own ...
The Effect of EU-ETS on Swedish Industry's Investment in Carbon Mitigating Technologies
(2013-04)
The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) is so far the largest emissions trading system in the world. It covers about 12000 installations, representing approximately 45% of EU emissions of CO2, with the ...
Architecture of the EU Emissions Trading System in Phase 3 and the Distribution of Allowance Asset Values
(2015-10)
Recent changes to the EU Emissions Trading System introduce structural changes regarding the initial distribution of emissions allowances, which are worth tens of billions of euros. A key
change is the expanding role for ...
Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)
For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult
to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study
the support for climate leadership in seven ...