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ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 227-242Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2009.08.002
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Carbon dioxide emissions; Energy and the economy; Environmental policy; Fuel-switching; Vector autoregressive model
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion activities on economic activity in Portugal in order to evaluate the economic costs of policies designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. We find that energy consumption has a significant impact on macroeconomic activity. In fact, a one ton of oil equivalent permanent reduction in aggregate energy consumption reduces Output by (sic)6340 over the long term. an aggregate impact which hides a wide diversity of effects for different fuel types. More importantly, and since carbon dioxide emissions are linearly related to the amounts of fuel consumed, Our results allow us to estimate the costs of reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from different energy sources. We estimate that marginal abatement costs for carbon dioxide are (sic)45.62 per ton of carbon dioxide per year for coal, (sic)66.52 for oil, (sic)91.07 for gas, (sic)191.13 for electricity and (sic)254.23 for biomass. An important policy implication is that, once the overall economic costs of reducing carbon dioxide emissions are considered, fuel switching is a no-regrets environmental policy capable of reducing carbon dioxide emissions without jeopardizing economic activity and indeed with the potential for generating favorable economic outcomes. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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