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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation : An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy
Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - 2013
policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate-related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting … adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity-building to analyse the optimal portfolio of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042204
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The Problem of the Commons : Still Unsettled After 100 Years
Stavins, Robert N. - 2010
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet - in regard to natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135981
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The Problem of the Commons : Still Unsettled after 100 Years
Stavins, Robert N. - 2010
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet - in regard to natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138074
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Using the Market to Address Climate Change : Insights from Theory and Experience
Aldy, Joseph E. - 2011
Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending. An effective climate policy will have to modify the decision calculus for these activities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118252
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The 'Doomsday' Effect in Climate Policies : Why is the Present Decade so Crucial to Tackling the Climate Challenge?
Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste - 2012
Despite growing scientific evidence that passing a 2°C temperature increase may trigger tipping points in climate dynamics, most Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) based on Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) with smooth quadratic damage functions are unable to account for the possibility of strong...
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Making China the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy : Key Challenges and Responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016
China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community's perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001043
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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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Quantifying Non-Cooperative Climate Engineering
Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
The mismatch between actions to combat climate change, which are based on voluntary national initiatives of limited effort, and the recognition of the importance of global warming is growing. Climate engineering via solar radiation management has been proposed as a possible complement to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941078
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Directed Technical Change with Capital-Embodied Technologies : Implications for Climate Policy
Witajewski, Jan - 2014
We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048403
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Integrated Assessment of Climate Catastrophes with Endogenous Uncertainty : Does the Risk of Ice Sheet Collapse Justify Precautionary Mitigation?
Diaz, Delavane - 2015
Greenhouse gas policies confront the trade-off between the costs of reducing emissions and the benefits of avoided climate change. The risk of uncertain and potentially irreversible catastrophes is an important issue related to the latter, and one that has not yet been well incorporated into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019654