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. Electricity price impact is not visible. The investment cost impact is not significant either, but the effect of the interest rate …/MWh of support in addition to electricity price is needed to observe the connection of new turbines to the grid with a 0 …
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This paper investigates the economic incentives of countries to cooperate on international adaptation financing …. Adaptation is generally implicitly incorporated in the climate change damage functions as used in Integrated Assessment Models …. We replace the implicit decision on adaptation with explicit adaptation in a multi-regional setting by using an adjusted …
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We compile a database of energy uses, energy sources, and carbon dioxide emissions for the USA for the period 1850 …
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This paper examines how changes in an international climate regime would affect the European decarbonization strategy and costs through the mechanisms of trade, technology, and innovation. We present the results from the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) model comparison study on European climate...
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The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been …
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This paper compares the level of uncertainty widely reported in climate change scientific publications with the level of uncertainty of the costs estimates of implementing the Kyoto Protocol in the United States. It argues that these two categories of uncertainties were used and ignored,...
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … absence of a coordinated global agreement on climate change and to realign the policy balance from adaptation toward more … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in …
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induced by climate change in the next decades. Autonomous adaptation induced by changes in relative prices and in stocks of …
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The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher …
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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 total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the … for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures. …
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