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This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatement is enriched with a planned-adaptation module where a defensive...
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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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Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the …
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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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Agricultural and forestry activities cover the majority of the EU territory: in particular agriculture is the main lad … use type, accounting for more than 41% of the land use in the EU15, while in the new Member States this share ranges …
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. The GDP cost of the EU emission reduction target for the Italian economy can indeed be reduced by 1% when the two energy …
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model with a module that models the endogenous risk of...
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