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Comment: legal liability as climate change policy
Several U.S. states have attempted to use of legal liability imposed on greenhouse gas emitters as a public policy instrument for climate change. This brief comment considers the desirability of this approach, focusing on three possible roles for climate change liability: as a source of compensation, as a direct influence on greenhouse gas concentrations, and as a means to facilitate the adoption of ex ante public policies to control greenhouse gases. The strongest argument for liability may be that the threat of liability improves the chances that climate change policies will use more efficient, revenue-raising instruments.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2007-03
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
- Subject
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Environmental policy
law and economics
revenue recycling
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Sigman, Hilary
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Rutgers University, Department of Economics
- (where)
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New Brunswick, NJ
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Sigman, Hilary
- Rutgers University, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2007
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