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A Tale of Two Countries : Emissions Scenarios for China and India
Massetti, Emanuele - 2011
The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in international negotiations to control global warming. We base our conclusions on historical data and on scenarios until 2050. The Business-as-Usual scenario (BaU) is compared to...
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Technological Change, Fuel Efficiency and Carbon Intensity in Electricity Generation : A Cross-Country Empirical Study
Verdolini, Elena - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of energy efficiency in fossil fuel electricity generation across 28 OECD countries over the period 1981-2006, with particular attention to the role played by technological development and the availability of energy efficient...
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How to Measure Carbon Equity : Carbon Gini Index Based on Historical Cumulative Emission Per Capita
Fei, Teng - 2014
This paper uses Lorenz Curve and Gini Index with adjustment to per capita historical cumulative emission and constructs Carbon Gini Index to measure inequality in climate change area. The analysis using Carbon Gini Index shows that 70% of carbon space in the atmosphere has been used for unequal...
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Regional Low-Emission Pathways from Global Models
Van Soest, Heleen - 2016
Governments worldwide have agreed that international climate policy should aim to limit the increase of global mean temperature to less than 2°C with respect to pre-industrial levels. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the emission reductions and related energy system changes in various...
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The Social Cost of Carbon and the Ramsey Rule
Withagen, Cees - 2019
The objective of this paper is to critically assess the use of simple rules for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that employ a rudimentary form of the Ramsey Rule. Two interrelated caveats apply. First, if climate change poses a serious problem, it is hard to justify an exogenous constant growth...
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The Economics of Geological CO2 Storage and Leakage
van der Zwaan, Bob - 2014
The economics of CO2 capture and storage in relation to the possibility of significant leakage of CO2 from geological reservoirs once this greenhouse gas has been stored artificially underground will be among the main determinants of whether CCS can significantly contribute to a deep cut in...
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Scanning for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Targets and Their Distributions
Schleicher, Stefan P.; Koeppl, Angela - 2012
If dangerous and irreversible climatic events are to be avoided, global average temperature should not increase by more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. In order to achieve such a global target, a mitigation pathway has to limit global emissions to about 50 percent below 1990 levels by...
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Emissions Pricing to Stabilize Global Climate
Bosetti, Valentina; Paltsev, Sergey; Reilly, John M.; … - 2014
In the absence of significant greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, many analysts project that atmospheric concentrations of species identified for control in the Kyoto protocol could exceed 1000 ppm (carbon-dioxide-equivalent) by 2100 from the current levels of about 435 ppm. This could lead to...
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Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset
Bauer, Adam Michael; Proistosescu, Christian; Wagner, Gernot - 2023
We develop a financial-economic model for carbon pricing with an explicit representation of decision making under risk and uncertainty that is consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. We find that this approach provides economic support for the...
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Carbon Prices are Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package
Aune, Finn Roar - 2019
In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European … Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a … comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its three main targets: lower greenhouse gas emissions, higher renewable share in …
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