Marginal abatement cost curves: a call for caution

By Fabian Kesicki, Paul Ekins. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Estimating the marginal abatement cost curve of CO2 emissions in China: Provincial panel data analysis (2015, background): “Finally it helps in assessing the cost-effectiveness of various policy regimes (Ellerman and Decaux, 1998; Kesicki and Ekins, 2011; Klepper and Peterson, 2006).”
• Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications (2012, background): “However, such assessments fail to capture biodiversity and socio-economic goals, often involve contentious cost and scale assumptions (Ekins et al. 2011), and rarely consider indirect effects, such as trade balance and employment multiplier effects.”
• All adrift: aviation, shipping, and climate change policy (2015, background): “It involves one of many allocation regimes (Den Elzen & Hohne, 2011) and, for individual sectors specifically, can be further disaggregated using marginal abatement cost curves (Kesicki & Ekins, 2012) to identify sectors with more or less scope to cut emissions.”
• Marginal Abatement Costs and Marginal Welfare Costs for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: Results from the EPPA Model (2011, unknown): “By misuse we 6 For a detailed critique of the McKinsey approach, see Kesicki and Ekins [12].”
• Procrastinating reform: The impact of the market stability reserve on the EU ETS (2016, background): “Given that in the relevant period the pre-shock price level is lower with the MSR and that convex marginal abatement costs are standard in the literature (Böhringer et al., 2009; Kesicki & Ekins, 2012; Landis, 2015), the MSR reduces the absolute size of immediate price responses to demand shocks.”