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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: van der Ploeg, F, Rezai, A
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016