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This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....
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pollutant and endogenous risk of catastrophic collapse. We contrast the traditional "discounted utility" model, which assumes … risk neutrality with respect to intertemporal utility, with a multiplicative choice model that displays risk aversion in …" economy for a given interest rate and no pollution externality. Second, once we introduce a collapse risk whose hazard rate is …
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This paper discusses aspects of risk and uncertainty relevant in an interdisciplinary assessment of climate change … policy. It opposes not only the objective approach versus the subjective approach, but also situations when precise … aspects the IPCC guidance notes provides an interdisciplinary unified approach on risk and uncertainty. This is a significant …
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and housing policy. …
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There are two questions to be considered: a) to which extent the type of framing which may be appropriate for scientific explorations of some issues can also be relevant in a decisionmaking context, in which achieving an agreement among stakeholders is the key problem? b) what is the practical...
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The impacts of climate change on human systems depend not only on the level of emissions but also on how inherently vulnerable these systems are to the changing climate. The large uncertainties over future development and structure of societies and economies mean that the assessment of climate...
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policy scenarios which respectively assume a strengthening of state intervention, the introduction of market regulation … future water management scenarios. From a policy viewpoint it clarifies expectations concerning State intervention and self …
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Geoengineering, i.e. the use of artificial techniques aiming at cooling the planet, is increasingly considered as a realistic alternative to emission mitigation. Several methods are promising for their capacity to quickly halt global warming at a moderate cost. Such cheap technologies might be...
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This paper describes a world composed of two (groups of) countries, which derive their utility from a polluting …
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We describe a method to represent the results of climate simulation models with analogues. An analogue to a city A is a city B whose climate today represents A's simulated future climate. Climates were characterized and compared non-parametrically, using the 30-years distribution of three...
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