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The Unilateral Implementation of a Sustainable Growth Path with Directed Technical Change
Bijgaart, Inge van den - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across … countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … sector. If nonparticipants drive global innovation, this requires policies relocating clean production to nonparticipants. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268584
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Linking Reduced Deforestation and a Global Carbon Market: Impacts on Costs, Financial Flows, and Technological Innovation
Bosetti, Valentina; Lubowski, Ruben; Golub, Alexander; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008035
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The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills Across Sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642164
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Economic and Environmental Effectiveness of a Technology-based Climate Protocol
Carraro, Carlo; Buchner, Barbara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea – recently … innovation and diffusion than when they cooperate on emission abatement. However, technological cooperation – without any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385383
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Abatement and Transaction Costs of Carbon-Sink Projects Involving Smallholders
Cacho, Oscar; Lipper, Leslie - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses. However, participation in carbon-sink projects may be constrained by high costs. This problem may be particularly severe for projects involving smallholders in developing countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423243