Electricity and environmental policy: Developing country priorities and trade-offs
Recent international attempts to address global environmental issues have brought to the force questions about how energy-related environmental problems and priorities vary between countries in different development situations. Difficulties in achieving consensus in the climate change negotiations at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the 1995 Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) reflected significant inter-country differences in environmental and other development priorities. The global warming literature has examined potential cooperation between industrialized countries (ICs) and developing countries (DCs) in the control of greenhouse gas emissions, although it does not appear to have explored differences in environmental priorities in much depth. With the partial exception of the sustainable development literature, mainstream environmental economics, although acknowledging the theoretical possibility and the empirical reality that DCs might have different environmental priorities from those of ICs, has devoted relatively little attention to these issues.
- Research Organization:
- International Association for Energy Economics, Cleveland, OH (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 416312
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9507139-; TRN: 96:006517-0007
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 18. International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) international conference, Washington, DC (United States), 5-8 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Into the Twenty-First Century: Harmonizing energy policy, environment, and sustainable economic growth. Proceedings; PB: 528 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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