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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...

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Environmental Regulations, Market Structure and Technological Progress in Renewable Energy Technology — A Panel Data Study on Wind Turbines

Rübbelke, Dirk; Weiss, Pia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We … on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

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Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Noailly, Joëlle - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy … likelihood to patent. Governmental energy R&D support has a small positive significant effect on patenting activities. …

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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 …

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The WITCH Model. Structure, Baseline, Solutions

Bosetti, Valentina; Massetti, Emanuele; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

WITCH – World Induced Technical Change Hybrid – is a regionally disaggregated hard-link hybrid global model with a neoclassical optimal growth structure (top-down) and a detailed energy input component (bottom-up). The model endogenously accounts for technological change, both through...

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Technological Change, Fuel Efficiency and Carbon Intensity in Electricity Generation: A Cross-Country Empirical Study

Verdolini, Elena; Johnstone, Nick; Hašcic, Ivan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

technology. Second, we focus on the role of technological availability: using patent data for carefully selected innovations in …

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change: Comment

Hourcade, Jean-Charles; Pottier, Antonin; Espagne, Etienne - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper discusses the growth model with environmental constraints recently presented in (Acemoglu et al., 2011) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield...

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Inducing Low-Carbon Investment in the Electric Power Industry through a Price Floor for Emissions Trading

Brauneis, Alexander; Loretz, Michael; Mestel, Roland; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Uncertainty about long-term climate policy is a major driving force in the evolution of the carbon market price. Since this price enters the investment decision process of regulated firms, this uncertainty increases the cost of capital for investors and might deter invest-ments into new...

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Innovation Benefits from Nuclear Phase-out: Can they Compensate the Costs?

Cian, Enrica De; Carrara, Samuel; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We … due to both climate and innovation market failures. Our results show that phasing out nuclear power stimulates additional … R&D investments and deployment of infant technologies with large learning potential. The innovation benefits which this …

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The 2008 WITCH Model: New Model Features and Baseline

Cian, Enrica De; Bosetti, Valentina; Sgobbi, Alessandra; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

representation of endogenous technological change and the game–theoretic set-up. Technological change is driven by innovation and …

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