Growth, Environment and Climate change

1) Background readings
• “Green growth, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND PRODUCTIVITY CAN WORK
TOGETHER, » OECD (2014) Policy brief.
• Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris by Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty 01 December
2015 voxeu.org
• Climate policy: Prices versus equity by Lucas Bretschger 11 October 2015 voxeu.org
Policy reports (optional)
Botta, E. and T. Kozluk (2014), “Measuring Environmental Policy Stringency in OECD Countries: A
Composite Index Approach”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1177, OECD
Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jxrjnc45gvg-en
Rodriguez et al. (2018), ”Environmentally Adjusted Multifactor Productivity: Methodology and
Empirical Results for OECD and G20 Countries”, OECD Green Growth Papers, No. 2018/02,
OECD Publishing, Paris.
PART I: THE ENVIRONMENT, GROWTH, TRADE AND POLICY
a) Data: Choose a country for which data is available in the OECD database (if possible, related
to the initiative you studied in homework 1):
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=GREEN_GROWTH
a.1) GDP growth measurement

  • GDP growth
  • Pollution-adjusted GDP growth
  • Adjustment for pollution abatement – Contribution of labor – Contribution of capital – Contribution of natural capital – Environmentally Adjusted multi-factor productivity growth
    a.2) Policy stringency
    Collect data for the same period on the Environmental Policy Stringency measure of the OECD.
    a. 3) Trade and environment : Imported emissions
    Collect data on
  • Imported emissions – Imported emissions by scale effect – Imported emissions by scale and composition effect
    Note: read the definitions of the variables, which are available in the dataset.
    b) Plot the data using graphs and/or tables
    c) discuss the evolution of the different indicators using the concepts and theories learned in the
    second part of the course.
    Homework 2: Growth, Environment and Climate change Due 28/05/2020
    d) Can we say that the growth performance of the country has taken place at the expense of
    environmental deterioration? Or that both have been improving?
    e) Does your answer to question f) changes once you consider the role of trade and of imported
    emissions?
    PART II: CLIMATE AGREEMENTS
    For the country analyzed in part I
    a) What were the the voluntary commitments of the country in the COP21 agreements?
    b) Where these commitments perceived as ambitious at the time ?
    c) Where they considered as fair or equitable?
    d) And how far or how little the country has done since then?
find the cost of your paper

This question has been answered.

Get Answer