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Politics and Economics of Second-Best Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: The Importance of Regulatory Credibility
Bosetti, Valentina; Victor, David G. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Modellers have examined a wide array of ideal-world scenarios for regulation of greenhouse gases. In this ideal world, all countries limit emissions from all economic sectors; regulations are implemented by intelligent, well-informed forward-looking agents; all abatement options, such as new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540412
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The Kyoto Protocol and the Effect of Existing and Planned Measures in the Agricultural and Forestry Sector in the EU25
Giupponi, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Buchner, Barbara; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Agricultural and forestry activities cover the majority of the EU territory: in particular agriculture is the main lad use type, accounting for more than 41% of the land use in the EU15, while in the new Member States this share ranges between 30 and 60 %, whereas forestry is the second. The...
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A Review of Recent Studies on Cost Effectiveness of GHG Mitigation Measures in the European Agro-Forestry Sector
Giupponi, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Povellato, Andrea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Over the last twenty years, climate change has become an increasing concern for scientists, public opinions and policy makers. Due to the pervasive nature of its impacts for many important aspects of human life, climate change is likely to influence and be influenced by the most diverse policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990056
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Auctioning vs. Grandfathering in Cap-and-Trade Systems with Market Power and Incomplete Information
Alvarez, Francisco; André, Francisco J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
-unit, multi-bid uniform auction, modelled as a Bayesian game of incomplete information. At the auction each firm anticipates his … as their bidding strategies and it precludes the auction from generating a cost-effective allocation of permits, as it … would occur in simpler auction models. Auctioning tends to be more cost-effective than grandfathering when the firms’ costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833916
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Energy Balance Climate Models, Damage Reservoirs and the Time Profile of Climate Change Policy
Brock, William; Engstrom, Gustav; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
A simplified energy balance climate model is considered with the global mean temperature as the state variable, and an endogenous ice line. The movements of the ice line towards the Poles are associated with damage reservoirs where initial damages are high and then eventually vanish as the ice...
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Partnerships for a Better Governance of Natural Hazard Risks
Calliari, Elisa; Mysiak, Jaroslav; Santato, Silvia; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
This paper discusses the role played by decentralized, voluntary multi-stakeholder partnerships between public authorities and agencies and/or public authorities and civil society for disaster risk reduction. We pay attention to Public – Public Partnerships (PuP), a term coined for public...
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Directed Technical Change With Capital-Embodied Technologies: Implications For Climate Policy
Lennox, James A.; Witajewski, Jan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941058
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The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): Ex-Post Analysis, the Market Stability Reserve and Options for a Comprehensive Reform
Knopf, Brigitte; Koch, Nicolas; Grosjean, Godefroy; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
The central pillar of European climate policy, the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), is currently under scrutiny, as the allowance price is persistently low at around 5€/tCO2. The cap was met and emissions actually declined in recent years, ensuring the environmental effectiveness of...
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Fiscal Policy and CO2 Emissions of New Passenger Cars in the EU
Gerlagh, Reyer; Bijgaart, Inge van den; Nijland, Hans; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
T o what extent have national fiscal policies contributed to the decarbonisation of newly sold passenger cars? We construct a simple model that generates predictions regarding the effect of fiscal policies on average CO2 emissions of new cars, and then test the model empirically. Our empirical...
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Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: The Case of Carbon Trading in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Putting a price on carbon is considered a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China’s grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and low-carbon cities in six provinces and thirty-six...
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