Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192512 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 530
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The literature suggests that Russia and Ukraine may become large sellers of greenhouse gas emissions permits under the Kyoto Protocol and might exploit their market power to maximize trading profits. The EU countries taken together will probably be net buyers of permits. For any given global target for emission, participation by developing countries with low-cost abatement options would benefit the net buyers of permits because the market price for carbon permits would go down. We explore how the EU could benefit from a broader participation through specific bilateral agreements with developing countries in the post-Kyoto period. The bilateral agreement involves a minimum permit sales requirement which is compensated by a financial transfer from EU to the developing country. Such bilateral agreement enables the EU to act strategically in the permit market on behalf of its member states, although firms in each member state are assumed to be price takers in the permit market. In a numerical simulation we show that an appropriately designed bilateral agreement between the EU and China can cut EU's total compliance cost by one third.
Subjects: 
emissions permits
post-Kyoto climate agreement
strategic permit trading
JEL: 
D43
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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