Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53193 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 05.2011
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical evidence we obtain that any 'new technology' that reduces the emissions of CO2 per dollar of GDP by less than 76% from their current level is welfare reducing. Developing clean technologies as well as transferring cleaner; technologies to developing countries make a global post-Kyoto agreement over the control of emissions all the more urgent.
Subjects: 
Transboundary Pollution
Renewable Resource
Climate Change
Clean Technologies
Differential Games
JEL: 
Q20
Q54
Q55
Q58
C73
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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