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Technology Change and US Participation in the Kyoto Protocol Jeffrey Binggeli and Joachim Schleich. Research design based on GTAP-E. Scenario 1: US participates in Kyoto Protocol (KP); no technological change (TC) in the electricity generation from coal
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Technology Change and US Participation in the Kyoto Protocol Jeffrey Binggeli and Joachim Schleich
Research design based on GTAP-E Scenario 1: US participates in Kyoto Protocol (KP); no technological change (TC) in the electricity generation from coal quota for USA, full trading among all Annex 1; afall ("Coal, "Electricity", "USA") = 0; Scenario 2: US does not participate in KP; no TC no quota for USA, full trading among other Annex 1, afall ("Coal, "Electricity", "USA") = 0; Scenario 3: US does not participate in KP; TC no quota for USA, full trading among other Annex 1, afall ("Coal, "Electricity", "USA") = 10; Scenario 4: US participates in KP; TC quota for USA, full trading among all Annex 1, afall ("Coal, "Electricity", "USA") = 10;
Conclusions • TC in electricity generation from coal in the US results in: • - a decrease in coal output (dominating technology effect) • a decrease in electricity generation in the US under Kyoto only • substitution of gas by coal • higher welfare gains to US, if US participates in KP (b/c of lower MAC) • TC in US is more beneficial to other countries, if US participates in KP • TC of 10% is not enough to make US participation in KP beneficial (from US perspective!) because of „Hot Air“ from Russia • Would need TC >> 50% to make US benefit from participation
Backup: Coal demand (qf) • Equation INTDEMAND • # industry demands for intermediate inputs, including cgds # • (all,i,TRAD_COMM)(all,j,PROD_COMM)(all,r,REG) • !< Top level : demand for non-energy intermediate inputs >! • qf(i,j,r) = (D_NEGY(i,j,r)*D_VFA(i,j,r)* [ - af(i,j,r) + qo(j,r) - ao(j,r) • - ESUBT(j) * [pf(i,j,r) - af(i,j,r) - ps(j,r) • !HL debug: added! - ao(j,r)] ]) • ! level 3 : electricity ! • + (D_ELY(i,j,r)*D_VFA(i,j,r)* [- af(i,j,r) + qen(j,r) • - ELELY(j,r) * [pf(i,j,r) - af(i,j,r) - pen(j,r)] ]) • ! fourth level : coal ! • + (D_COAL(i,j,r)*D_VFA(i,j,r)* [- af(i,j,r) + qnel(j,r) • - ELCO(j,r) * [pf(i,j,r) - af(i,j,r) - pnel(j,r)] ]) • ! fifth level : remainding fossil fuels ! • + (D_OFF(i,j,r)*D_VFA(i,j,r)* [- af(i,j,r) + qncoal(j,r) • - ELFU(j,r) * [pf(i,j,r) - af(i,j,r) - pncoal(j,r)] ]);