FT: Big Oil: From black to green

From the FT: Big Oil: From black to green

Despite pressure to develop renewables, many energy majors see more money in traditional markets

Highlighting the different attempts of big oil companies to diversify to green energy, with a distinct difference apparently between European and US companies.

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New OxCARRE Research: Stranded assets, the social cost of carbon, and directed technical change: Macroeconomic dynamics of optimal climate policy

New OxCARRE research from

Frederick van der Ploeg ([ox.ac.uk], OxCARRE) and Armon Rezai ([wu.ac.at], WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Stranded assets, the social cost of carbon, and directed technical change: Macroeconomic dynamics of optimal climate policy

Abstract

The tractable general equilibrium model developed by Golosov et al. (2014), GHKT for short, is modified to allow for stock-dependent fossil fuel extraction costs and partial exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves, a negative impact of global warming on growth, mean reversion in climate damages, steady labour-augmenting technical progress, specific green technical progress driven by learning by doing, population growth, and a direct effect of the stock of atmospheric carbon on instantaneous welfare. We characterize the social optimum and derive simple rule for both the optimal carbon tax and the renewable energy subsidy, and characterize the optimal amount of untapped fossil fuel.

Available here [ox.ac.uk].