Economic and environmental impacts of the Kyoto Protocol

Canadian Journal of Economics - Tập 36 Số 2 - Trang 475-496 - 2003
Christoph Böhringer1, Carsten Vogt1
1Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim

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AbstractIn 2003 the Kyoto Protocol, which imposes legally binding greenhouse gas emission constraints on industrialized countries, is likely to enter into force. The Protocol has been celebrated as a milestone in climate protection, but standard economic theory casts doubt that it will go beyond symbolic policy. In this paper, we show that the final concretion of the Kyoto Protocol is consistent with the theoretical prediction: Kyoto more or less boils down to business‐as‐usual without significant compliance costs to ratifying parties. JEL Classification: D58, Q43, Q58Conséquences économiques et environnementales du protocole de KyotoEn 2003, le protocole de Kyoto, qui impose aux pays industrialisés l’obligation de réduire leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre, entrera probablement en vigueur. Si le protocole a été accueilli comme un grand pas en avant dans le combat pour protéger l’environnement, la théorie économique jette un regard sceptique sur la portée réelle d’un tel accord et le considére comme un geste symbolique. Dans ce mémoire, on montre que la concrétisation finale de l’accord de Kyoto s’arrime aux prédictions théoriques : Kyoto n’est rien de plus que « business‐as‐usual » et n’impliquera pas de coûts significatifs pour les parties qui ont signé le protocole.

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