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Category Text Publication
Reference Category Book chapters
DOI 10.1142/9789814641814_0009
Title (Primary) Pareto improvements induced by climate funding in a strategic adaptation-mitigation framework
Title (Secondary) Climate finance : theory and practice
Author Peters, W.; Schwarze, R.; Topp, A.K.
Publisher Markandya, A.; Galarraga, I.; Rübbelke, D.T.G.
Source Titel World scientific series on the economics of climate change
Year 2017
Department OEKON
Volume Vol. 2
Page From 191
Page To 212
Language englisch
UFZ wide themes RU6
UFZ inventory Leipzig, Bibliothek, Hauptlesesaal, 00514378, 17-0373 DK: 330.1:614.7 Mar
Abstract

We address the international regime of climate finance, which is emerging in the post-Kyoto architecture, and investigate which type of earmarked funding may lead to Pareto improvements for donor and recipient countries. As funding within the post-Kyoto framework is voluntary, sustained finance in the long term can only be guaranteed if all participating countries benefit. In order to rule out for the Bergstrom paradox, which states that recipient countries may end up in a worse-off situation as a consequence of conditional transfers, we presume a framework in which donor countries commit themselves not to reduce their own mitigation efforts. Regarding three types of earmarked climate funding, which compensate either mitigation, adaptation or damage costs, we find that only funds that are directed at mitigation activities boost the global level of mitigation and may induce Pareto improvements. Transferring our results into the political context of the Green Climate Fund, we recommend to prioritize finance of “energy generation and access”, which aims at enhancing mitigation through low-emission power generation and access.

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Peters, W., Schwarze, R., Topp, A.K. (2017):
Pareto improvements induced by climate funding in a strategic adaptation-mitigation framework
In: Markandya, A., Galarraga, I., Rübbelke, D.T.G. (eds.)
Climate finance : theory and practice
World scientific series on the economics of climate change Vol. 2
World Scientific Publishing, Singapur, p. 191 - 212 10.1142/9789814641814_0009