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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different … characteristics have important implications for climate policy. We show in the context of our model that: (i) the optimal carbon tax …
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widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast …
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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate …'s domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with Extraction; ii.) Agreements with Transfers; and iii.) Agreements with Sanctions …. We distill the fundamental properties of different climate policy options into a simple parameterization and examine the …
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of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also … worse outcomes, as it can lead to diminishing public support for the required mitigation and adaptation (as has arguably … been the case with globalization). Since there is also evidence that high human capital improves adaptation and mitigation …
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standard assumption of a lump-sum tax system when analyzing mitigation and adaptation is found to underestimate the loss in …In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts …. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more …
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each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether. …
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aims at raising mitigation while also reducing the damages from climate change: conditional adaptation support. Especially … alternative conditional transfer schemes: one plainly subsidizes mitigation efforts, while the other provides adaptation support …In order to overcome the underprovision of global public goods various different policy approaches have been proposed …
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We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...
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response to specific proposals. If it has to deduce the vulnerability of regions by their actions, the resulting adaptation …We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer …
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Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed … adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of … adaptation is provided, with focus on budgetary effects of adaptation in the different impact sectors. Combining cost estimates …
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