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Adapting to Climate Change : An Analysis Under Uncertainty

García-León, David - 2016

problems. In an attempt to advance in the modelling of adaptation within IAM models, we apply this methodology to shed some … light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about …

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Potentials and Limits of Bayesian Networks to Deal with Uncertainty in the Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Policies

Catenacci, Michela; Giupponi, Carlo - 2010

implementation of climate change adaptation policies. The review will let emerge the potentials of the model to characterise …

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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...

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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...

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Climate Change Policy Under Polar Amplification

Brock, William A. - 2016

Polar amplification is an established scientific fact which has been associated with the surface albedo feedback and to heat and moisture transport from the Equator to the Poles. In this paper we unify a two-box climate model, which allows for heat and moisture transport from the southern region...

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Spatial Heat Transport, Polar Amplification and Climate Change Policy

Brock, William A. - 2016

This paper is, to our knowledge, the first paper in climate economics to consider the combination of spatial heat transport and polar amplification. We simplified the problem by stratifying the Earth into latitude belts and assuming, as in North et al. (1981), that the two hemispheres were...

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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...

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Quantifying Catastrophic and Climate Impacted Hazards Based on Local Expert Opinions

Keighley, Tim - 2014

The analysis of catastrophic and climate impacted hazards is a challenging but important exercise, as the occurrence of such events is usually associated with high damage and uncertainty. Often, at the local level, there is a lack of information on rare extreme events, such that available data...

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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....

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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...

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