Renewable Energy Subsidies: Second-Best Policy or Fatal Aberration for Mitigation?

206 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Citations in the corpus

2 °C and SDGs: united they stand, divided they fall? (2016, unknown): “It also includes an indicator for ocean acidification (Joos et al 2011, Zickfeld et al 2012) as well as three indicators that relate to transitional socioeconomic mitigation risks (growth in mitigation costs and energy prices as well as early retirement of coal capacity).”
The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development (2014, unknown): “Many economists believe that employing a carbon emission tax or emission trading mechanism is considered a good policy to mitigate emissions at the lowest cost (Kalkuhl et al., 2013).”
A retrospective analysis of benefits and impacts of U.S. renewable portfolio standards (2016, unknown): “This is in part due to possible economy-wide rebound, spillover, or leakage effects and also because such policies more directly target the achievement of public benefits (Borenstein 2012; Edenhofer et al. 2013; IPCC 2011; IPCC 2014a; Kalkuhl et al. 2013; McKibbin et al. 2014; Tuladhar et al. 2014).”
From climate finance toward sustainable development finance (2017, unknown): “Sunset clauses for subsidies will however be required to avoid locking-in a subsidy-based policy mix which may hamper the introduction of carbon pricing necessary to achieve decarbonization.(37,39) We therefore propose that climate finance should focus on supporting policies that either closely rese”