Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Considered to Be a Negative Public

question 248

Multiple Choice

Carbon dioxide emissions are considered to be a negative public good because

• A) nobody can have less of them because somebody else has more; and nobody can be excluded from their destructive consequences.
• B) individuals can be excluded from their negative consequences.
• C) firms will be able to capture the returns from their development of new abatement technology.
• D) all countries will have to bear the costs of carbon dioxide abatement.

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