Publications by Year: 2019

2019
Stavins, Robert N.The Madrid climate conference's real failure was not getting a broad deal on global climate markets.The Conversation (2019). Publisher's Version
Stavins, R. N., L Schneider, M Duan, K Kizzier, D Broekhoff, F Jotzo, H Winkler, M Lazarus, A Howard, and C Hood. “Double Counting and the Paris Agreement Rulebook.” Science 366, no. 6462 (2019): 180–183. double_counting_science_policy_forum-october_2019_published_version.pdf
[A-98]
Stavins, R. N.Book Review: Gert Crum and Jan Bartelsman: Le Domaine de la Romanee-Conti."Journal of Wine Economics 14 (2019): 224–227. stavins_drc_review_published_version.pdf
[A-100]
Stavins, Robert N., and Richard Schmalensee. “Policy Evolution Under the Clean Air Act.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 33, no. 4 (2019): 27-50. Publisher's Version policy_evolution_under_the_clean_air_act_jep-published_version.pdf
[A-99]
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert Stavins. “Learning from Thirty Years Cap & Trade.” Resources, no. 201 (2019). Publisher's Version
Schatzki, Todd, R. Scott, and R. N. Stavins. “Transitioning to Long-Run Effective and Efficient Climate Policies.” Discussion Paper (2019). dp_80_stavins_schatzki_scott_transition_to_ghg-pricing_generic_2019.pdf
[F-40]
Stavins, Robert. Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Seventh Edition. Seventh. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. 2019.
[B-12]
Mehling, Michael A., Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins. “Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement).Environmental Law 8, no. 4 (2019): 647–698.Abstract
The Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success—a broad base of participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved—adequate collective ambition of the individual nationally determined contributions. How can the climate negotiators provide a structure that will include incentives to increase ambition over time? An important part of the answer can be international linkage of regional, national, and sub-national policies, that is, formal recognition of emission reductions undertaken in another jurisdiction for the purpose of meeting a Party’s own mitigation objectives. A central challenge is how to facilitate such linkage in the context of the very great heterogeneity that characterizes climate policies along five dimensions: type of policy instrument, level of government jurisdiction, status of that jurisdiction under the Paris Agreement, nature of the policy instrument’s target, and the nature along several dimensions of each Party’s Nationally Determined Contribution. We consider such heterogeneity among policies, and identify which linkages of various combinations of characteristics are feasible; of these, which are most promising; and what accounting mechanisms would make the operation of respective linkages consistent with the Paris Agreement.
linking_heterogeneous_climate_policies_consistent_with_the_paris_agreement_in_journal_january_2019_002.pdf
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