IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/tcpoxx/v4y2004i2p143-152.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Implementing the Kyoto Protocol without Russia

Author

Listed:
  • Erik Haites
  • Farhana Yamin
  • Odile Blanchard
  • Claudia Kemfert

Abstract

This paper examines implementation of the Kyoto Protocol without Russia. It concludes that implementation without Russia is possible, although it requires political will on the part of the countries that wish to proceed with the Protocol. It would lead to higher compliance costs for Annex B buyer regions, but other regions, except Russia, would benefit financially. Russia would forego revenue of at least $20 billion for the first commitment period. Implementation without Russia could improve the environmental performance of the Protocol. It would reduce reliance on Annex B sinks, use of surplus assigned amount units (AAUs) for compliance, and the quantity of Kyoto units banked for subsequent commitment periods. Actual emissions by Kyoto Protocol Parties would fall, but the reduction may be offset by leakage to the US and Russia.

Suggested Citation

  • Erik Haites & Farhana Yamin & Odile Blanchard & Claudia Kemfert, 2004. "Implementing the Kyoto Protocol without Russia," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(2), pages 143-152, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tcpoxx:v:4:y:2004:i:2:p:143-152
    DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2004.9685517
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14693062.2004.9685517
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14693062.2004.9685517?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Bjart J. Holtsmark & Knut H. Alfsen, 2004. "Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol without Russian participation," Discussion Papers 376, Statistics Norway, Research Department.
    2. Odile Blanchard & Patrick Criqui & Alban Kitous, 2002. "After The Hague, Bonn and Marrakech : the future international market for emissions permits and the issue of hot air," Post-Print halshs-00196364, HAL.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Carolyn Fischer & Richard D. Morgenstern, 2006. "Carbon Abatement Costs: Why the Wide Range of Estimates?," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 2), pages 73-86.
    2. Jensen, Henning Tarp & Jensen, Hans Grinsted & Gylling, Morten, 2009. "Adoption of GM Food Crop Varieties in the European Union," Conference papers 331886, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    3. Claudia Kemfert, 2007. "The "Bali Convention": Flexibility of Targets and Instruments Inevitable," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 729, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Klepper, Gernot & Peterson, Sonja, 2003. "On the robustness of marginal abatement cost curves: the influence of world energy prices," Kiel Working Papers 1138, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    2. Axel Michaelowa, 2006. "Can insurance deal with negative effects arising from climate policy measures?," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(6), pages 672-682, November.
    3. Klepper, Gernot & Peterson, Sonja, 2006. "Marginal abatement cost curves in general equilibrium: The influence of world energy prices," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(1), pages 1-23, January.
    4. Larson, Donald F. & Ambrosi, Philippe & Dinar, Ariel & Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur & Entler, Rebecca, 2008. "Carbon markets, institutions, policies, and research," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4761, The World Bank.
    5. Frans Berkhout & Adrian Smith, 2003. "Carbon Flows between the EU and Eastern Europe: Baselines, Scenarios and Policy Options," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 199-219, September.
    6. Springer, Urs, 2003. "The market for tradable GHG permits under the Kyoto Protocol: a survey of model studies," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(5), pages 527-551, September.
    7. Kemfert, Claudia & Zhang, ZhongXiang, 2003. "Linking developing country's cooperation on climate control with industrialized country's R&D and technology transfer," MPRA Paper 41473, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Michaelowa, Axel & Jotzo, Frank, 2005. "Transaction costs, institutional rigidities and the size of the clean development mechanism," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 511-523, March.
    9. Leo Schrattenholzer & Gerhard Totschnig, 2005. "An Analysis of Alternative Emission Trading Strategies of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 74(2), pages 217-234.
    10. Michel G.J. den Elzen & Andr� P.G. de Moor, 2002. "Evaluating the Bonn-Marrakesh agreement," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2(1), pages 111-117, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:tcpoxx:v:4:y:2004:i:2:p:143-152. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/tcpo20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.