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Assessing the Effects of Climate Policy on Companies' Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Montoya, Ana Maria - 2017
We study the effect of climate policy on companies' greenhouse gas emissions using emissions data for the headquarters and subsidiaries of the world's biggest manufacturing, energy, and utility companies. Our results suggest that financial incentives and legal requirements to audit energy use...
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RICE-MED, an integrated assessment model for the Mediterranean basin : assessing the climate-economy-agriculture nexus
Castelli, Chiara; Castellini, Marta; Gusperti, Camilla; … - 2023
In this work we update the regionalization and the calibration of the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE) in its 1999 version developed by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), with a focus on the Mediterranean countries. Our aim is to assess the impact of climate change...
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An integrated assessment of climate change, air pollution, and energy security policy
Bollen, Johannes; Hers, Sebastiaan; Zwaan, Bob van der - 2009
This article presents an integrated assessment of climate change, air pollution, and energy security policy. Basis of our analysis is the MERGE model, designed to study the interaction between the global economy, energy use, and the impacts of climate change. For our purposes we expanded MERGE...
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Climate change impacts on birth outcomes in Brazil
Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Menezes, Tatiane; Alves, … - 2014
This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low...
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Economic implications of EU mitigation policies : domestic and international effects
Bosello, Francesco; Davide, Marinella; Alloisio, Isabella - 2016
The EU has a consolidated climate and energy regulation: it played a pioneering role by adopting a wide range of … climate change policies and establishing the first regional Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). These policies, however, raise … the potential extra-EU spillover of the EU mitigation policy with a particular attention to developing countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457751
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Mitigating climate change : growth-friendly policies to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
Jaumotte, Florence; Liu, Weifeng; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2021
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Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean
Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Walsh, Brian; Feng, Kuishuang; Di … - 2019
Carbon taxes are advocated as efficient fiscal and environmental policies, but they have proven difficult to implement. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food, heating, and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programs...
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Too much oil
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2010
Fear for oil exhaustion and its consequences on economic growth has been a driver of a rich literature on exhaustible resources from the 1970s onwards. But our view on oil has remarkably changed and we now worry how we should constrain climate change damages associated with oil and other fossil...
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Can climate change mitigation policy benefit the Israeli economy? : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Palatnik, Ruslana (contributor);  … - 2008
The growing attention to global warming due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the process of fossil fuel--based energy production is expressed in the Kyoto Protocol, which prescribes, on average, a 7 percent reduction in GHG emissions for developed countries. Although Israel was not included...
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The cost of climate stabilization in Southeast Asia, a joint assessment with dynamic optimization and CGE models
Bosello, Francesco; Marangoni, Giacomo; Orecchia, Carlo; … - 2016
Southeast Asia is at a time one of the most vulnerable region to the impacts of a changing climate, with millions of its inhabitants still trapped in extreme poverty without access to energy and employed in climate-sensitive sectors, and, potentially, one of the world’s biggest contributors to...
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