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Investments in Global Warming Mitigation: The Case of “Activities Implemented Jointlyâ€\x9D

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  • Nives DolÅ¡ak
  • Maureen Dunn

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This paper examines bilateral cooperation between developed countries (home country) and developing countries (host country) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to enhance carbon dioxide sinks. With the home-host country pair as the unit of analysis, our logistic regression model examines 158 Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) investment projects from 1993 until 2002 across 2541 country-pairs. Because the marginal costs of reducing emissions may be lower in developing countries, the AIJ projects served as a policy laboratory to assess whether such investments might be advantageous to both countries in the event future regimes allowed emission credits from such bilateral projects. Instead of investing in home countries where maximum pollution reductions (or carbon sequestration) might be possible, home countries invest in locations where they can conduct their policy experiments at low transaction costs. Prior trade and aid relationships were used as a proxy. Regarding energy projects, location decisions are driven by home countries’ desire to reduce air pollution that they receive from abroad. Geography – proximity of a host country to a home country – in interaction with host country's coal production, is a very important driver of location decision in AIJ energy sector projects. Location of sequestration projects is impacted by the host country's potential for avoiding deforestation as well as by previous aid and trade patterns between a home and a host country. Proximity is not important in this case. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2006

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  • Nives DolÅ¡ak & Maureen Dunn, 2006. "Investments in Global Warming Mitigation: The Case of “Activities Implemented Jointlyâ€\x9D," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 39(3), pages 233-248, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:policy:v:39:y:2006:i:3:p:233-248
    DOI: 10.1007/s11077-006-9020-9
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    1. Veronica Ward, 2002. "Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 2(2), pages 116-122, May.
    2. Axel Michaelowa, 2002. "The AIJ pilot phase as laboratory for CDM and JI," International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3/4), pages 260-287.
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    1. Röttgers, Dirk & Grote, Ulrike, 2014. "Africa and the Clean Development Mechanism: What Determines Project Investments?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 201-212.

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