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Freight Futures : The Potential Impact of Road Freight on Climate Policy

Carrara, Samuel - 2017

This paper describes changes to the modelling of the transport sector in the WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) model to incorporate road freight and account for the intensity of freight with respect to GDP. Modelling freight demand based on the intensity of freight with respect to...

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Should We Ban Unconventional Oil Extraction to Reduce Global Warming?

Carrara, Samuel - 2014

impacts than the extraction of conventional oil. The European Union (EU) estimates that oil sands lead to 22% more emissions … than conventional oil. The EU is very concerned by the potential climate and environmental impacts and has considered … unilateral ban of the EU on unconventional oil has no climate benefits and it is expensive for Europe …

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Non-Co2 Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Modeling with Marginal Abatement Cost Curves : Technical Change, Emission Scenarios and Policy Costs

Carrara, Samuel - 2014

The abatement of non-CO2 greenhouse gases (OGHG) has proved to be of paramount importance for reaching global mitigation targets. The modeling of their abatement is normally carried out referring to marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves, which by now represent a standard approach for such an...

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Carbon Storage and Bioenergy : Using Forests for Climate Mitigation

Favero, Alice - 2016

The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy. In this paper, we look at both options to reach a 2°C mitigation target. This paper combines the global forest model, GTM, with the IAM WITCH model to study the optimal use of...

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A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services : Evidence from the European Forests

Ding, Helen; Silvestri, Silvia; Chiabai, Aline; Nunes, … - 2013

In this paper we present a systematic attempt to assess economic value of climate change impact on forest ecosystems and human welfare. In the present study, climate change impacts are downscaled to the different European countries, which in turn constitute the elements of our analysis. First,...

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Investments and Financial Flows Induced by Climate Mitigation Policies

Bastianin, Andrea; Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2013

In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...

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European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services : An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts

Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2015

This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors’ knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...

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Valuation of Linkages Between Climate Change, Biodiversity and Productivity of European Agro-Ecosystems

Palatnik, Ruslana Rachel; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. - 2014

It is clear that climate change involves changes in temperature and precipitation and therefore directly affects land productivity. However, this is not the only channel for climatic change to affect agro-systems. Biodiversity is subject to climatic fluctuations and in turn may alter land...

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Can the Global Forest Sector Survive 11°C Warming?

Favero, Alice - 2017

It is well known that the forestry sector is sensitive to climate change but most studies have examined impacts only through 2100 and warming of less than 4°C. This is the first timber analysis to consider possible climate change impacts out to 2250 and warming up to 11°C above 1900 levels....

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Climate Change and Tourism in Tuscany, Italy : What If Heat Becomes Unbearable?

Cai, Mattia; Ferrise, Roberto; Moriondo, Marco; Nunes, … - 2014

This paper investigates the empirical magnitude of climate conditions on tourist flows in Tuscany, exploring the use of a fine spatial scale analysis. In fact, we explore the use of an 8-year panel dataset of Tuscany’s 254 municipalities, examining how tourist inflows respond to variation in...

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