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Quantifying Climate Change Loss and Damage Consistent with a Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
Burke, Marshall; Zahid, Mustafa; Diffenbaugh, Noah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Climate change is generating demonstrable harm around the world. Political and legal efforts have sought to associate …
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Projections and Uncertainties About Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies
Nordhaus, William D. - 2016
Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations. Up to now, nations have to date adopted minimal policies to slow climate change. Moreover, there has been no major improvement in emissions trends as of the latest data. The current study uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455747
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On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
Weitzman, Martin - 2016
This paper postulates the conceptually useful allegory of a futuristic "World Climate Assembly" (WCA) that votes for a … emitter's single-peaked most-preferred world price of carbon emissions to the world "Social Cost of Carbon" (SCC). The second … and third propositions relate the WCA-voted world price of carbon to the world SCC. I argue that the WCA-voted price and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455867
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Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change?
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2016
Finally we question the standard use of infinitely-lived, single-agent models, which assume, unrealistically, intergenerational altruism in determining optimal abatement policy. Their prescriptions can differ, potentially dramatically, from those needed to correct the negative climate...
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International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta
Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Current policies directed at mitigating global warming appear unlikely to prevent temperatures from rising to levels that would trigger a precipitous increase in the costs of climate change. Various attempts at international cooperation to avoid this outcome have failed. Why is this problem so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462728
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The Environment and Globalization
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2003
Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468604
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Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2012
Over the past two decades, the international community has struggled to deal constructively with the problem of mitigating climate change. This is considered by many to be the preeminent public policy challenge of our time, but actual policy responses have been relatively modest. This essay...
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The IPCC Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) : Explained, Evaluated, Replaced
Welch, Ivo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) are perhaps the most influential economic policy analyses today. My paper evaluates their development, natural associations, logical consequences, and economic identification. All five SSP baseline scenarios are predicting scenarios that historical...
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Climate Policy under Cooperation and Competition between Regions with Spatial Heat Transport
Cai, Yongyang - 2018
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 transport from the Equator to the Poles, sea level rise,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453241
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Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems : Learning from Experience
Ranson, Matthew - 2014
linkage, such as loss of control over domestic carbon policies, which do not appear to have deterred real-world decisions to …The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world's cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse …
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