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This paper builds on the assumption that OECD countries are (or will soon be) taking actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also get involved in the cooperative effort to reduce GHG...
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indicators. The FEEM SI index is built into a recursive-dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the world economy … sustainability improves at the regional and world level thanks to the GHG emission reductions achieved through climate policy …
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evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …
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the world. The second phase, prospective, aims at evaluating the future trends of sustainability in the world by 2030. The …
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spillovers across 12 regions of the world, optimal strategies are the outcome of a dynamic game through which inefficiency costs …
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In recent years, a large number of papers have explored different attempts to endogenise technical change in climate models. The obvious reason is that technical change is widely considered the main route to achieving a significant reduction in global GHG emissions. This recent literature has...
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Transfers often play a crucial role in encouraging participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs). However, the economic literature on transfers is very limited and results achieved so far do not exploit the full potential of transfers for successful treaty-making. Therefore, in...
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is broadly viewed as the world's most legitimate scientific …
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using the World Induced Technical Change model, WITCH. Three different versions of the model are proposed. The starting set …
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This paper analyses the incentives to participate in and the stability of international climate coalitions. Using the integrated assessment model WITCH, the analysis of coalitions’ profitability and stability is performed under alternative assumptions concerning the pure rate of time...
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