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IPCC WGIII Fourth Assessment Report, Second Order Draft
1111 For a evaluation of the EU ACEA agreement on fuel economy
please see Volpi and Patrick ten Brink 'Environmental Voluntary
Agreements'
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(Giulio Volpi, WWF International)
27 A 15 20 15 20 suggest to replace the disqualifying "With a few exeptions, the
majority has achieved little reduction beyond the baseline." with the
more positive phrasing "Agreements assisted in speeding up the
application of BAU-measures."
(Government of The Netherlands)
27 A 15 21 0 0 Statement is correct, but it would even be more interesting to note
under which conditions VAs are likely to be successful, using the
many years of good and bad experiences as a guide.
(Rob Swart, MNP)
27 A 15 22 15 24 It is stated that cost are generally higher for technology specific
subsidies. This is only true in a static sense since the technology
specific support normally is implemented to create learning and
scale economies which reduce cost and thereby also the required
subsidy over time. Since the early learning markets can be very
small, the total cost may also be small since the level of the subsidy
can decrease as the market grows. The second sentence that states
that technology specific subsidies of some kind is needed to
overcome thresholds acknowledge this fact, and implicitly says that
it would be more expensive, not less, to overcome these thresholds
in other ways. Hence there is a contradiction between the two
sentences in the paragraph.
(Government of Sweden)
27 A 15 22 15 24 Add a new sentence at the end of line 24 that would read as
follows: “However, such incentives might divert scarce resources
from other worthwhile societal tasks and needs.” (RATIONALE:
Subsidies are a special type of incentive.) U.S. Government
(Government of U.S. Department of State)
27 A 15 24 15 24 Economic costs are generally higher than what?
(Paul Baer, EcoEquity)
Expert Review of Second-Order-Draft
Confidential, Do Not Cite or Quote
Response suggested by cochairs
also A-1086, 1104-1113
TIA when reformulating; see
also A-1086, 1104-1113
TIA when reformulating; see
also A-1086, 1104-1113
DISCUSS
Induced technology change?
Amend language to avoid
confusion
REJ; that is already covered by
“higher cost”
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ACC; add “than other
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instruments”
SPM- 27 A 15 24 15 24 add the words "development and" before the word "penetration" ACC
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13 Will revisit text
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Carefully
consider line 22.
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