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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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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 addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...
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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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contains several idealistic assumptions that could be violated in the real world where some technologies may not be fully … available, technology transfers and diffusion are imperfect, some world regions may not accept to reduce their GHG emissions …
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This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...
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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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