Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62972
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2003,34
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
Without an international climate agreement, extraction of more natural gas could reduce emissions of CO2 as more “clean” natural gas may drive out “dirty” coal and oil. Using a computable equilibrium model for the Western European electricity and natural gas markets, we examine whether increased extraction of natural gas in Norway reduces global emissions of CO2. We find that both in the short run and in the long run total emissions are reduced if the additional quantity of natural gas is used in gas power production in Norway. If instead the additional quantity is exported directly, total emissions increase both in the short run and in the long run. However, if modest CO2-taxes are imposed, increased extraction of natural gas will reduce CO2 emissions also when the additional natural gas is exported directed.
Subjects: 
natural gas
carbon
emissions
Norway
envirnoment
CO2
JEL: 
D58
Q38
Q48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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