Climate and industrial policy in an asymmetric world

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Climate change is a phenomenon leading to randomly distributed disasters around the globe. Due to massive economic and technical asymmetry between the advanced North and the developing South efficient climate and industrial policy is particular difficult. Globally efficient policy would need to equip the South with pollution reducing technologies. However, there is a tradeoff between capital accumulation for consumption growth and low-carbon development. The pollution stock affecting today's climate was historically accumulated by the North, therefore, the 'ability-to-pay principal' and the 'polluter pays principle' suggest to allocate the main burden of climate change policy to the advanced economies.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-446-1
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2011/79

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water ; Agricultural Finance
• Subject: climate change policy ; North-South asymmetries ; stock pollution ; distribution of burdens ; Klimaveränderung ; Industriepolitik ; Süd-Nord-Gefälle

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gries, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/54041
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET