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in the short term. However, the transition to a low-carbon world, although costly, appears to be manageable from a …
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The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the...
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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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participations in the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol framework. Although mitigation is not a priority at national or local level, it …: What is the policy space for climate change mitigation and adaptation policy at national and local level and what is … local benefits in terms of local pollution of integrating mitigation policies into local development. However, financial …
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levels proposed by the European Community; the rest of the world is represented by 21 geo-political countries/regions. It is … electricity sector (in Italy, around 2% for WtE and 0.6% for biogas in 2020) they could play a role in a mitigation policy context …
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potential policies against climate change: mitigation, which is the traditional policy, and geoengineering. We analyze the … optimal policy mix of geoengineering and mitigation in both a cooperative and a noncooperative framework, in which we study …
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recent 2009 “Copenhagen Accord”, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to … both cases uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When … catastrophic uncertainty is concerned mitigation becomes relatively more important as, by curbing emissions, it helps to reduce …
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Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and …
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in … is that precautionary considerations, rather than the ability to reduce smooth damage increases, justify mitigation as a …
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impatience, and the private cost of geoengineering. We determine the impact of asymmetry on mitigation and SRM activities …, concentration of GHGs, and global temperature, and we examine whether a trade-off actually emerges between mitigation and SRM. Our … results could provide some insights into a currently emerging debate regarding mitigation and SRM methods to control climate …
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