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Cost of non-uniform climate policies

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Economically optimal climate strategies may be politically less feasible because they need strong collective action. Fortunately, achieving climate goals through more realistic differentiated policies may not be much more expensive.

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Fig. 1: Energy-related CO2 emissions per capita in the five largest developed and five major emerging economies for the period 1920–2017.

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The research that led to this publication received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 821471 (project Exploring National and Global Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ENGAGE)). I thank J. Jewell for useful comments on the manuscript and M. Vetier for help in producing the figure.

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  2. International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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