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Greening Electricity More Than Necessary: On the Cost Implications of Overlapping Regulation in EU Climate Policy

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Böhringer, C., Rosendahl, K. Greening Electricity More Than Necessary: On the Cost Implications of Overlapping Regulation in EU Climate Policy. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 131(3), 469-492. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.131.3.469
Böhringer, Christoph and Rosendahl, Knut Einar "Greening Electricity More Than Necessary: On the Cost Implications of Overlapping Regulation in EU Climate Policy" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 131.3, 2011, 469-492. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.131.3.469
Böhringer, Christoph/Rosendahl, Knut Einar (2011): Greening Electricity More Than Necessary: On the Cost Implications of Overlapping Regulation in EU Climate Policy, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 131, iss. 3, 469-492, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.131.3.469

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Greening Electricity More Than Necessary: On the Cost Implications of Overlapping Regulation in EU Climate Policy

Böhringer, Christoph | Rosendahl, Knut Einar

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 131 (2011), Iss. 3 : pp. 469–492

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Christoph Böhringer, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Department für Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften, 26111 Oldenburg.

Knut Einar Rosendahl, Statistics Norway, Research Department, P.O. Box 8131 Dep., N-0033 Oslo, Norway.

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Abstract

Without tangible prospects for a global deal on climate protection the EU is under domestic policy pressure to justify stringent unilateral emissions reduction targets. Cost effectiveness of EU-wide emission abatement becomes increasingly important in order to sustain EU leadership in climate policy. We argue that administered EU targets for renewable energies are likely to make emission reduction much more costly than necessary. Therefore, they could rather hinder than promote public support to unilateral climate policy unless a convincing case for additional benefits of renewable energy targets can be put forward.