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Carbon tail risk
Ilhan, Emirhan; Sautner, Zacharias; Vilkov, Grigory - In: The review of financial studies 34 (2021) 3, pp. 1540-1571
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Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments : the transport sector in Latvia
Dobrinevski, Alexander; Jachnik, Raphaël - 2020
Mitigating climate change requires aligning real economy investments with climate objectives. This pilot study measures the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated at EUR 1.5 billion per year on average. To do so,...
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Corporate greenhouse gas emission reporting : a stocktaking of government schemes
Kauffmann, Céline; Tébar Less, Cristina; Teichmann, … - 2012
This paper provides an overview of current government schemes promoting corporate reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and analyses their main building blocks. It describes the drivers and challenges for governments, companies and investors in dealing with GHG reporting and includes 4...
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A survey of GHG mitigation policies for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector
Henderson, Ben; Frezal, Clara; Flynn, Eimear - 2020
In light of the urgency for policy action to address climate change, this report provides the first detailed global catalogue of targets and policies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector. It covers 20 countries which collectively...
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Chapter 16. Integrated Economic and Climate Modeling
Nordhaus, William - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 1069-1131). 2013
This survey examines the history and current practice in integrated assessment models (IAMs) of the economics of climate change. It begins with a review of the emerging problem of climate change. The next section provides a brief sketch of the rise of IAMs in the 1970s and beyond. The subsequent...
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Transient temperature response modeling in IAMs : the effects of over simplification on the SCC
Marten, Alex L. - 2011
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) couple representations of the natural climate system with models of the global economy to evaluate climate and energy policies. Such models are currently used to derive the benefits of carbon mitigation policies through estimates of the social cost of carbon...
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The influence of the specification of climate change damages on the social cost of carbon
Kopp, Robert E.; Golub, Alexander; Keohande, Nathaniel O.; … - 2012
uncertainty in extrapolating damages to high temperatures at moderate-to-high levels of risk aversion, but only modestly so at low … levels of risk aversion. While in the absence of risk aversion, all of the SCC estimates but one agree within a factor of two …, with a moderate level of risk aversion included, the differences among estimates grow greatly. For example, one composite …
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Towards green growth in Denmark : improving energy and climate change policies
Jamet, Stéphanie - 2012
Denmark’s green growth strategy focuses on moving the energy system away from fossil fuels and investing in green technologies, while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On the whole, current policies should allow Denmark to reach near-term climate change targets, but may not be...
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Border carbon adjustment and international trade : a literature review
Condon, Madison; Ignaciuk, Adriana M. - 2013
An important source of political opposition to measures aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) arises from concerns over their negative effects on the competitiveness of domestic firms, especially those that are energy-intensive and exposed to competition from foreign producers....
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Risk premia and the social cost of carbon : a review
Kousky, Carolyn; Kopp, Robert E.; Cooke, Roger M. - 2011
risk of catastrophic impacts. However, estimates of the social cost of carbon, which measures the marginal value of carbon … dioxide abatement, often do not capture this risk reduction benefit. Risk-averse individuals are willing to pay a risk premium … estimates obtained for calculating a risk premium to be included in the social cost of carbon. While more research is needed in …
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