Instrumentation Strategies and Instrument Mixes for Long Term Climate Policy

Current instrumentation is partial and is internally inconsistent, with mutually conflicting instruments. Most basically, current instrumentation lacks a clear long term strategy based on design thinking. However, the 2-degrees climate goal, with around 90% CO2 emission reduction for the EU by 2050, can be achieved with different sets of instruments. The report takes a long term view regarding Instrumentation strategies and instrument mixes for the EU’s climate policy. It develops two sets of instruments that are internally consistent and mostly mutually exclusive, based on two main strategies: a planning & control strategy and an institutionalist strategy.

 

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Huppes, Gjalt; Deetman, Sebastiaan; Huele, Ruben; Kleijn, René; Koning, Arjan de; Voet, Ester van der (2015) Instrumentation Strategies and Instrument Mixes for Long Term Climate Policy. CML, Leiden University, Leiden, DOI 10.13140/RG.2.1.1061.6409.

Funding: 

European Commission

Authors: 

Gjalt Huppes, CML, Sebastiaan Deetman, CML, Ruben Huele, CML, René Kleijn, CML, Arjan de Koning, CML, Ester van der Voet, CML 

Year of publication: 

2015

Number of pages: 

181

Table of contents: 

Ch 1

Towards instrumentation for long term climate policy

1

Ch 2

Imagining 2-degrees futures domains

8

Ch 3

Bottom up development and top down design of instrumentation

21

Ch 4

Main types of instrument building blocks

29

Ch 5

Instrument mixes for four emission pricing options and four main sectors

72

Ch 6

Towards full sets of instruments for long term climate policy

98

Ch 7

Pathways towards Planning & Control and Institutionalist Instrumentation

104

Ch 8

Comparing strategic Instrument mixes

128

Ch 9

Key outcomes and general recommendations

135