| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-85047950941
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| 论文题名: | Aligning climate action with the self-interest and short-term dominated priorities of decision-makers |
| 作者: | Cseh A.
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| 刊名: | Climate Policy
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| ISSN: | 14693062
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| 出版年: | 2019
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| 卷: | 19, 期:2 | | 起始页码: | 139
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| 结束页码: | 146
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Carbon pricing
; climate finance
; international climate agreements
; international climate negotiations
; pay for performance
; results-based payments
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| Scopus关键词: | benchmarking
; climate change
; emission control
; environmental economics
; incentive
; international agreement
; pollution tax
; willingness to pay
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| 英文摘要: | The global and long-term nature of climate change conflicts with the self-interest and short-term dominated priorities of decision-makers. Climate change mitigation makes sense at the global level, but not at the level of the individual decision-maker. This conflict has been and remains the main obstacle to effective global cooperation and mitigation. This paper proposes a framework that aligns climate action with short-term self-interest through results-based payments to governments. Its key components are: determining an emission benchmark for each country as well as a price for carbon saving; paying countries annually for reducing emissions below their respective benchmark; a new international fund to finance these annual payments by borrowing capital from private investors; and repaying borrowings in the long-term through payments made by countries to the fund based on a pre-determined allocation mechanism. This framework would offer important benefits over an approach focused on allocating climate action or a carbon budget among countries. These include the improved prospect of reaching an effective climate agreement and delivering fast and dramatic mitigation thanks to stronger political commitment, the transformation of short-term self-interest from an obstacle into a driver of climate action, and the additional financing created. The paper also proposes a pilot scheme focusing on hydrofluorocarbon emissions with a considerably lower financing requirement. This offers the possibility of an alternative financing mechanism, and thus a faster and more straightforward implementation path. Short-term financial incentives offered to governments could turn policy action from a burden into an opportunity from their perspective unlocking a huge potential for timely mitigation. Key policy insights A new international framework that offers short-term, results-based payments to governments to promote mitigation action could lead to much more effective global mitigation and international cooperation. The financing of such an approach could be solved through a novel financing structure, backed by the long-term commitments of participating countries and thus aligning the timeframe of the financial costs of mitigation with its climate benefits. The effectiveness of results-based payments and the concept behind this new approach could be proven through a pilot scheme focusing on hydrofluorocarbon emissions. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/122592
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: | Climate Moonshot Initiative, London, United Kingdom
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Cseh A.. Aligning climate action with the self-interest and short-term dominated priorities of decision-makers[J]. Climate Policy,2019-01-01,19(2)
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