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Reconciling Trade and Climate Policies
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility. There is no meaningful binding agreement in sight, also because the global...
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Energy and Climate Change in China
Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH … levels. The elasticity of China’s emissions is estimated by pooling observations from all scenarios and compared with the … elasticity of emissions in OECD countries. China has a higher elasticity than the OECD for a carbon tax lower than 50$ per ton of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084331
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Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility with no meaningful binding agreement in sight as the global climate regime and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677241
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What is the Top Priority on Climate Change?
Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
What should be the West's top priority for climate-change policy? This article is a revised and updated version of my talk to the Potsdam Global Sustainability Symposium (which drafted the Potsdam Declaration presented to the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali).
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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation: An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy
Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The latest round of international negotiations in Copenhagen led to a set of commitments on emission reduction which are unlikely to stabilise global warming below or around 2°C. As a consequence, in the absence of additional ambitious policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address...
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Regional Decentralization and the Soft Budget Constraint: The Case of China
Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The majority of enterprises in China are controlled by local governments at the provincial, city, county, township and … lower-level governments of townships and villages in China. …
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What Should we Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...
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The Fossile Episode
Hassler, John; Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We build a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model with one-sided substitutability between fossil carbon and biocarbon. One shock only, the discovery of the technology to use fossil fuels, leads to a transition from an inital pre-industrial phase to three following phases: a pure fossil...
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Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa
Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Persson, Torsten; Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that infants were much more likely to die when exposed in utero...
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Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: The Dynamic Impact of Unilateral Environmental Policies
Hemous, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. I show that a...
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