Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis

This study analyzes the potential impacts of a national emission trading scheme on provincial economies in China of meeting China's emission reduction pledges, the Nationally Determined Contributions announced under the Paris Agreement. The st...

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Main Authors: Pang, Jun, Timilsina, Govinda
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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spelling okr-10986-319742022-09-05T00:20:27Z Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis Pang, Jun Timilsina, Govinda CARBON POLICY CARBON PRICING EMISSIONS TRADING RENEWABLE ENERGY CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION CGE MODEL This study analyzes the potential impacts of a national emission trading scheme on provincial economies in China of meeting China's emission reduction pledges, the Nationally Determined Contributions announced under the Paris Agreement. The study developed a multiregional, multisectoral, recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model and calibrated it with the latest provincial-level social accounting matrices (2012). The study shows that meeting China's Nationally Determined Contributions through an emission trading scheme would reduce almost 30 percent of the emission reduction from the business as usual scenario in 2030. If the baseline is corrected based on information from a bottom-up energy sector model, TIMES, the required reduction of emissions from the baseline in 2030 drops by half, to 15 percent. At the national level, the emission trading scheme would cause a 1.2 to 1.5 percent reduction in gross domestic product from the business as usual scenario in 2030. If the baseline is corrected, the impact on gross domestic product drops by two-thirds. The emission trading scheme would cause some provincial economies to gain and others to lose. The economic impacts are highly sensitive to the allowance allocation rules. Not only the magnitudes, but also the directions of the economic impacts alter when the allocation rules change. The provinces that rely on coal mining or coal-intensive manufacturing industries are found to experience relatively larger economic losses irrespective of the allowance allocation rules. 2019-06-26T19:25:16Z 2019-06-26T19:25:16Z 2019-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/936771561121209039/Implications-for-Provincial-Economies-of-Meeting-Chinas-NDC-through-an-Emission-Trading-Scheme-A-Regional-CGE-Modeling-Analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31974 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8909 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific China
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topic CARBON POLICY
CARBON PRICING
EMISSIONS TRADING
RENEWABLE ENERGY
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
CGE MODEL
spellingShingle CARBON POLICY
CARBON PRICING
EMISSIONS TRADING
RENEWABLE ENERGY
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
CGE MODEL
Pang, Jun
Timilsina, Govinda
Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
China
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8909
description This study analyzes the potential impacts of a national emission trading scheme on provincial economies in China of meeting China's emission reduction pledges, the Nationally Determined Contributions announced under the Paris Agreement. The study developed a multiregional, multisectoral, recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model and calibrated it with the latest provincial-level social accounting matrices (2012). The study shows that meeting China's Nationally Determined Contributions through an emission trading scheme would reduce almost 30 percent of the emission reduction from the business as usual scenario in 2030. If the baseline is corrected based on information from a bottom-up energy sector model, TIMES, the required reduction of emissions from the baseline in 2030 drops by half, to 15 percent. At the national level, the emission trading scheme would cause a 1.2 to 1.5 percent reduction in gross domestic product from the business as usual scenario in 2030. If the baseline is corrected, the impact on gross domestic product drops by two-thirds. The emission trading scheme would cause some provincial economies to gain and others to lose. The economic impacts are highly sensitive to the allowance allocation rules. Not only the magnitudes, but also the directions of the economic impacts alter when the allocation rules change. The provinces that rely on coal mining or coal-intensive manufacturing industries are found to experience relatively larger economic losses irrespective of the allowance allocation rules.
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author Pang, Jun
Timilsina, Govinda
author_facet Pang, Jun
Timilsina, Govinda
author_sort Pang, Jun
title Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis
title_short Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis
title_full Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis
title_fullStr Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Implications for Provincial Economies of Meeting China's NDC through an Emission Trading Scheme : A Regional CGE Modeling Analysis
title_sort implications for provincial economies of meeting china's ndc through an emission trading scheme : a regional cge modeling analysis
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/936771561121209039/Implications-for-Provincial-Economies-of-Meeting-Chinas-NDC-through-an-Emission-Trading-Scheme-A-Regional-CGE-Modeling-Analysis
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