Reducing the climate change bill
by Juan Delgado on 27 April 2008
Category: EXTERNAL PUBLICATIONS
Topics: Climate change and energy
In this paper for the Think Global Act European project Juan Delgado argues that early, effective and cost-efficient policies are crucial to achieving the objective of keeping future temperature changes below two degrees celsius. He calls for a concentration of efforts in two areas: a functioning carbon market and a broad post-Kyoto international agreement.
Why Europe is not carbon competitive
by Juan Delgado on 19 November 2007
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Category: POLICY BRIEFS
Topics: Climate change and energy, Trade, investment and competitiveness
Contrary to what is generally pictured, this policy brief shows that when considering the export mix, Europe is more vulnerable to carbon pricing schemes than other countries and regions. Europe specialises more than its main global competitors in industries with relatively high carbon emissions, such as minerals and chemicals, rather than in high-tech industries and services . This would have a real effect on Europe‘s competitiveness in a world regulated by carbon pricing schemes such as the EU‘s Emissions Trading Scheme – even if other blocs apply them as the EU does.
EU climate policy: dividing up the commons
by Juan Delgado on 29 August 2007
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Category: POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS
Topics: Climate change and energy, Trade, investment and competitiveness
Juan Delgado discusses the economic impact of climate change policies. The EU has committed to an ambitious climate change agenda. The challenge facing Europe now is how to meet the targets at a minimum cost and how to allocate the cost in such a way that it has a neutral impact on competitiveness. This note was presented in August 2007 to the Economic Policy Committee of the EU.
Energy: choices for Europe
by Juan Delgado, Hans W. Friederiszick , Lars-Hendrik Röller on 22 March 2007
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Category: BLUEPRINTS
Topics: Climate change and energy, Trade, investment and competitiveness
Can Europe‘s nations go alone in their quest for a secure, competitive and environmentally-sustainable energy future? Or will this lead to a dispersion of effort, even to mutually undercutting national policies? If a common energy policy is the way forward, can the EU manage the necessary political arbitrage between 27+ different countries? This report seeks to answer these questions. A video from the launch event is available on ESMT's website.
Follow the link below to see the complete dataset (data sources and methodology) of the Energy Policy Index (EPI)
www.bruegel.org/fileadmin/files/admin/publications/Energy_Report_Data_and_Methodology.pdf