Pollution and climate

Countries with ambitious climate targets are concerned about carbon leakage to countries with more lenient or no carbon pricing.

This article explores whether altruistic preferences toward households in poor high-temperature countries stimulate global warming policies within rich low-temperature countries that avoids damage from global warming.

Unmanaged and overgrown coastal heathlands represent a substantial fire hazard. We analyse how this hazard in Norwegian coastal heathlands is influenced by weather conditions, land management, and usage.

Statistics Norway carried out an electronic sample survey concerning pesticide use in 2022. Similar surveys were carried out in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2017

Unilateral CO₂ emission reduction can lead to carbon leakage, such as relocation of power-intensive and trade-exposed industries.

Weather and temperatures vary in ways that are difficult to explain and predict precisely. In this article we review data on temperature variations in the past as well possible reasons for these variations.

This paper examines the investment incentives of market-based regulation, with focus on the technology characteristics the different regulatory schemes tend to incentivize.

Abatement can be performed by measures that have an impact on present emissions, but no lasting effect, and by long-lived infrastructure investments.

Technology policy is the most widespread form of climate policy and is often preferred over seemingly efficient carbon pricing.

This paper investigates environmental policy in the presence of endogenous preferences. The optimal time trajectory is achieved if and only if the consumer is perfectly time-consistent.