Climate Change Trade Measures: Estimating Industry Effects

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• Creators:
  Yager, Loren
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Climate change
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Exhaust gases
  • Productivity
  • Costs
  • Emissions trading
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO-09-875T
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Abstract:
  Estimating the potential effects of domestic emissions pricing for industries in the United States is complex. If the United States were to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, production costs could rise for certain industries and could cause output, profits, or employment to fall. Within these industries, some of these adverse effects could arise through an increase in imports, a decrease in exports, or both. However, the magnitude of these potential effects is likely to depend on the greenhouse gas intensity of industry output and on the domestic emissions price, which is not yet known, among other factors.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17298/dot_17298_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 384.42 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Transportation Resilience and Vulnerability Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0a137958a2228182e6e3fb8970e892500021309462b4e35736fd0384164a5525