The Green Paradox is the tag of the controversial book by German economist, Hans-Werner Sinn, describing a observation that an environmental policy that becomes greener with the passage of time acts like an announced expropriation for the owners of fossil fuel resources, inducing them to accelerate resource extraction and hence to accelerate global warming.
Hans-Werner Sinn's ideas on the green paradox hit been provided in unit in a number of scientific articles, his 2007 Thünen Lecture at the annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik, his 2007 presidential quotation to the International Institute of Public Finance in Warwick, two works papers, and a German-language book, “Das Grüne Paradoxon” 2008. They build on his earlier studies on manage reactions of the owners of natural resources to announced price changes.