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Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change: A Multi-Model Comparison

Gillingham, Kenneth; Nordhaus, William; Anthoff, David; … - 2016

The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks...

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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 …

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The WITCH 2016 Model - Documentation and Implementation of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Emmerling, Johannes; Drouet, Laurent; Reis, Lara Aleluia; … - 2016

This paper describes the WITCH - World Induced Technical Change Hybrid - model in its structure, calibration, and the implementation of the SSP/RCP scenario implementation. The WITCH model is a regionally disaggregated hard-linked model based on a Ramsey type optimal growth model and a detailed...

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Climate change and adaptation: The case of Nigerian agriculture

Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - 2013

The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...

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Choosing the optimal climate change policy in the presence of catastrophic risk

Bosello, Francesco; De Cian, Enrica; Ferranna, Licia - 2012

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by analyzing their optimal policy balance in the context of climate catastrophic risk. The investigation enriches an integrated assessment model introducing the endogenous link between the probability of experiencing...

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A good opening: The key to make the most of unilateral climate action

Bosetti, Valentina; De Cian, Enrica - 2011

In this paper we argue that when a subgroup of countries cooperate on emission reduction, the optimal response of non-signatory countries reflects the interaction between three potentially opposing factors, the incentive to free-ride on the benefits of cooperation, the incentive to expand the...

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Linking reduced deforestation and a global carbon market: Impacts on costs, financial flows, and technological innovation

Bosetti, Valentina; Lubowski, Ruben; Golub, Alexander; … - 2009

Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...

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Adapting and mitigating to climate change: Balancing the choice under uncertainty

Bosello, Francesco; Chen, Chen - 2010

Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the …

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Assessing the economic impacts of climate change: An updated CGE point of view

Bosello, Francesco; Eboli, Fabio; Pierfederici, Roberta - 2012

The present research describes a climate change integrated impact assessment exercise, whose economic evaluation is based on a CGE approach and modeling effort. Input to the CGE model comes from a wide although still partial set of up-to-date bottom-up impact studies. Estimates indicate that a...

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A Review of Recent Studies on Cost Effectiveness of GHG Mitigation Measures in the European Agro-Forestry Sector

Giupponi, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Povellato, Andrea - 2007

Over the last twenty years, climate change has become an increasing concern for scientists, public opinions and policy makers. Due to the pervasive nature of its impacts for many important aspects of human life, climate change is likely to influence and be influenced by the most diverse policy...

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