Cumulative emissions, unburnable fossil fuel, and the optimal carbon tax
A stylised analytical framework is used to show how the global carbon tax and the amount of untapped fossil fuel can be calculated from a simple rule given estimates of society’s rate of time impatience and intergenerational inequality aversion, the extraction cost technology, the r...
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Elsevier
2016
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