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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962133
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039715
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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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