The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new … opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is capable of delivering broad international … climate policy architecture for the post-Durban era: links among independent tradable permit systems for greenhouse gases …

Greater use of renewable energy is seen as a key component of any move to combat climate change, and is being …

-owned utilities compared to municipal producers that are exempted from this climate policy. Contrary to stranded-asset concerns, the …

We build a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system … including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in most IAMs. These elements are spatial heat … cooperation and various degrees of competition between regions. Our results suggest that when the elements of climate science …

In the absence of first-best climate policy, we demonstrate that existing government institutions and policy … established for reasons unrelated to climate change may induce climate adaptation. We examine the impact of temperature on ambient …. Furthermore, local beliefs about climate change appear to reinforce adap- tive behavior, suggesting a nontrivial role in second …