This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established social cost of carbon (SCC) for … discounting, it mis-estimated climate risk, possibly hugely. Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by …

agriculture. Moreover, the new production structure accounts for substitution possibilities between irrigation and other primary …Water and agriculture are intrinsically linked. Water is essential for crop production and agriculture is the largest …-W distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated agriculture and introduces water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated …

We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The … to improvements in irrigation efficiency in water-stressed regions is not beneficial for all. For water-stressed regions … and mostly negative. Global water savings are achieved. Not only regions where irrigation efficiency changes are able to …

Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost …

Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …

frameworks and techniques for analyzing climate policy in the context of uncertainty. This paper will give an overview of …

has three components: the pure rate of time preference, a measure of relative risk aversion, and the rate of growth of per … respect to consumption is particularly important because it assumes three roles: consumption smoothing over time, risk … rates of risk and inequity version can be expected to play significant roles. The consumption growth rate plays four roles …

Recent thinking about the economics of climate change has concerned the uncertainty about the upper bound of both …

analysis of climate change is confronted with a large degree of uncertainty and (c) that these uncertainties need to be taken … task is to provide formal frameworks and techniques for analyzing climate policy in the context of uncertainty. The aim of …