Putting a price on carbon: economic instruments to mitigate climate change in South Africa and other developing countries

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2010

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Winkler, Harald
Marquard, Andrew
Jooste, Meagan
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http://www.erc.uct.ac.za/Research/publications/10Winkler-et-al_ERC_Conference_Proceedings.pdf

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Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town.

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University of Cape Town

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Energy Research Centre
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Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
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There has been extensive debate among researchers in developed countries whether an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax is the best means to ‘put a price on carbon’. Other economic instruments could contribute to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions indirectly, including tradable certificates for renewable energy or energy efficiency. The conference organisers intended to take up the debate on how such instruments might apply in South Africa and other developing countries, putting carbon pricing in the context of broader policy on climate and development. This has not been done in depth previously.
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Theme 1: Carbon pricing and the policy environment. Aligning South African energy and climate change mitigation policy / Emily Tyler ; Carbon pricing and industrial policy in South Africa / Brent Cloete and Genna Robb -- Theme 2: Quantitative analyses of carbon pricing. What is fair? Meeting a national emission reduction target in an experimental setting / Kerri Brick and Martine Visser ; Estimating the demand elasticity for electricity by sector in South Africa / Roula Inglesi and James Blignaut ; Modelling the impact of CO2 taxes in combination with the Long Term Mitigation Scenarios on emissions in South Africa using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model / Marna Kearney -- Theme 3: Lessons from the CDM experience. Innovative environment for enhancing carbon markets and prices / Francis Yamba ; A comparative analysis of CDM in South Africa and China Redefining the role of CDM in the quest for putting a price on carbon in South Africa / John Fay, Farai Kapfudzaruwa and Lin Na -- Theme 4: Carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes. Structuring approaches to pricing carbon in energy- and trade-intensive sectors: options for South Africa / Harald Winkler, Meagan Jooste and Andrew Marquard ; Mitigation in India: Emission trading as a possible policy option / Prabhat Upadhyaya ; Regulating energy demand and consumption in South Africa: Is carbon pricing sufficient? / Tebogo Makube -- Theme 5: Carbon tax versus emissions trading schemes. A comparison of emissions trading and carbon taxation as carbon mitigation options for South Africa / Michael Goldblatt ; Carbon trading or carbon tax? Weighing up South Africa’s mitigation options / Genna Robb, Emily Tyler and Brent Cloete.

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Carbon taxes
Greenhouse gas mitigation

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Winkler, H; Marquard, A & Jooste, M (eds). (2010) Putting a price on carbon: economic instruments to mitigate climate change in South Africa and other developing countries. Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Cape Town, 23-24 March 2010.

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