Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192323 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 341
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We investigate whether the future relationships between several pollutants and per capita income in rich countries may assume the inverted U-forms of Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKC). The emission-augmenting effect of scaling up aggregate economic activity may be counteracted by greener composition of production and consumption, technological progress, and increased demand for environmental quality and policy. To quantify the importance of these central hypotheses, we use a CGE model with endogenous policy for Norway. Our results suggest significant future effects of all these three counteracting mechanisms. For most local and regional pollutants, they may be strong enough to prolong the falling emission trends. However, we cannot rely on reductions in emissions of climate gases and some transport-related local pollutants. Our results also indicate that pollution leakages abroad are likely to find place.
Subjects: 
The Environmental Kuznets Curve
Endogenous Policy
Climate policy
Dynamic CGE Model.
JEL: 
D58
O11
Q25
Q28
Q48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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