A compendium of options for government policy to encourage private sector responses to potential climate change

Technical Report · Sun Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5518928· OSTI ID:5518928

Volume 1 of this report evaluated generic policy instruments according to the criteria of efficiency information requirements, distributional effects, political sustainability, and applicability to greenhouse gas issues. This volume describes policies specific to the various components of the private sector and evaluates options for the implementation of policies according to a further set of screening criteria more suitable for specific instances or applications of the instruments. The description of the private sector in this volume is confined to qualitative analysis of the constraints and opportunities arising from existing materials, processes, markets, and regulatory frameworks that are likely to shape its response to the prospect of global warming. Materials include fuels as well as other substantive material and energy inputs and outputs for the sector. For example, steel production involves iron ore, coal, perhaps electricity, and the finished product. Processes are the activities by which a sector satisfies demands for its goods and services. For example, fossil fuel combustion is a major process in the utilities sector, while fertilizer production and application are both important processes for agriculture. Markets in this context include both capital markets which finance the activities of the private sector and the markets in which commodities and services are traded and consumed. The regulatory framework quite simply is the nexus of legal constraints on entry to an activity and the rules by which the government, or alternative regulatory agency, for example, a public utility commission, controls the activities of a sector. 387 refs., 15 figs., 18 tabs.

• Research Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Environmental Analysis
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/EH
• OSTI ID: 5518928
• Report Number(s): DOE/EH-0103-Vol.2; ON: DE90000996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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