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adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity building to analyse the optimal portfolio of … investments in mitigation followed by large adaptation expenditures a few decades later. Hence, the possibility to adapt does not …
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This paper analyses the incentives to participate in and the stability of international climate coalitions. Using the integrated assessment model WITCH, the analysis of coalitions’ profitability and stability is performed under alternative assumptions concerning the pure rate of time...
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We use randomized program offers and multiple follow-up survey waves to examine the effects of entrepreneurship training on a broad set of outcomes. Training increases short run business ownership and employment, but there is no evidence of broader or longer run effects. We also test whether...
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There is a large consensus among international institutions and national governments to favor urban-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to improve the ecological performance of the urban system. This approach overlooks a fundamental fact: what matters for the ecological outcome of...
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that emerging economies can adopt in reacting to OECD countries’ mitigation effort, given the common long-term goal to …
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This paper provides a quantitative comparison of the main architectures for an agreement on climate policy. Possible successors to the Kyoto protocol are assessed according to four criteria: economic efficiency; environmental effectiveness; distributional implications; and their political...
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The literature on international environmental agreements has recognized the role transfers play in encouraging participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs), but the few results achieved so far are overly specific and do not exploit the full potential of transfers for successful...
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showing that mitigation costs are lower in a global permit market than in regional markets or in permit markets confined to …
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. Technology deployment is also affected by the timing of developing countries’ mitigation measures. Delayed NA1-country …
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effective mitigation strategies, at least in the short-term, and no agreement on an ambitious global stabilisation target has …. What additional economic cost of mitigation measures will this delay imply? At the same time, the uncertainty surrounding … targets? This paper addresses these questions by quantifying the economic implications of delayed mitigation action, and by …
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