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Population Under a Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Bohn, Henning - 2013
A cap on greenhouse gas emissions makes total emissions a fixed common-property resource. Population increases under a cap are therefore self-limiting: a population increase raises labor and reduces emissions per unit of labor, which lowers incomes and fertility. Because a marginal birth under a...
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Carbon Emissions Scenarios in Europe Based on an Endogenous Growth Model
Ciesielski, Anna - 2014
Carbon dioxide emissions are a major force driving climate change. We construct scenarios of CO2 emissions from fossil energy until 2100 in Europe. Major innovations are first that economic growth is based on an endogenous economic growth model and second that we calibrate our model to...
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Energy subsidies and their implications for CO2 emissions in the Visegrad Group countries
Molendowski, Edward; Pach-Gurgul, Agnieszka; Ulbrych, Marta - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 2, pp. 51-70
The aim of the article is to present a review of the literature on energy subsidies and the scale and structure of subsidies for energy production in the Visegrad Group countries. It also presents the most important results of an investigation into the relationship and impact of fossil fuel...
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The "new" environmental policy of the European Union : a path to development of a circular economy and mitigation of the negative effects of climate change
Wysokińska, Zofia - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 19 (2016) 2, pp. 57-73
implement new tools of the EU environmental policy, such as low carbon economy technologies, tools that improve the efficiency …
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A comparative analysis of initiatives and adaptation measures to climate change undertaken in Poland and Western Europe
Michalak, Dorota - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 19 (2016) 4, pp. 107-122
Climate change is one of the greatest contemporary threats to our planet's environmental, social and economic well-being, accompanied by major changes in life support systems on Earth, where the far-reaching effects will be felt in the coming decades. The Earth's climate is warming rapidly due...
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Polish adaptation policy to climate change vs. EU countries' adaptation policies
Michalak, Dorota; Szyja, Paulina - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 3, pp. 127-144
The purpose of this study is to compare the advancement of Poland's adaptation policy with the policy of other EU … economies of individual EU countries. The study used 12 comparative quantities, forecast to 2100 for 27 countries. The added … adaptation policies. However, comparing Poland with the other countries that joined the EU in 2004 shows the opposite trend. The …
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A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture
Van Passel, Steven - 2014
This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...
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Addressing the Climate Problem : Choice between Allowances, Feed-In Tariffs and Taxes
Amundsen, Eirik S. - 2018
Instruments chosen to pursue climate related targets are not always efficient. In this paper we consider an economy with three climate related targets for its electricity generation: a given share of “green” electricity, a given expansion of “green” electricity, and a given reduction of...
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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2021
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
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Total Costs and Budgetary Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change : An Assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2021
adaptation costs in the EU, divided by impact sectors. The findings show an expectedly large public burden in the adaptation of …
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