The safety valve and climate policy

Second-Best Instruments for Near-Term Climate Policy: Intensity Targets vs. the Safety Valve

Current proposals for greenhouse gas emissions regulations in the United States mainly take the form of emissions caps with tradable permits. Since Weitzman’s (1974) study of prices vs. quantities, economic theory predicts that a price instrument is superior under uncertainty in the case of stock pollutants. Given the general belief in the political infeasibility of a carbon tax, there has been...

The Effect of Safety Training Intervention on Safety Climate Component Among the Operational Staff of West Oil and Gas Company

Background and purpose: The safety climate shows the attitude and general perception of the organization's management regarding safety, which is aimed at investigating the impact of safety training on the safety climate of operational employees working in West Oil and Gas Company. Materials and Methods: This study is quasi-experimental interventional research, which was conducted in the first ...

Climate Policy and the Poor

the u.s. policy in central asia and its impact on the colored revolutions in the region (the case study of tulip revolution in kyrgyzstan)

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The Climate Policy Dilemmaf

Climate policy poses a dilemma for environmental economists. The economic argument for stringent GHG abatement is far from clear. There is disagreement among both climate scientists and economists over the likelihood of alternative climate outcomes, over the nature and extent of the uncertainty over those outcomes, and over the framework that should be used to evaluate potential benefits from G...