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This article presents an integrated assessment of climate change, air pollution, and energy security policy. Basis of our analysis is the MERGE model, designed to study the interaction between the global economy, energy use, and the impacts of climate change. For our purposes we expanded MERGE...
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Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economyclimate models. This paper gives an overview and...
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Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) are one of the favorite instruments to analyze the impacts of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and emissions trading. As shown in this paper one important factor that influences MACCs are energy prices. This leads to the question of how to define...
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-policies case reduces all energy imports, on average. Introducing a more stringent climate policy target for the EU only leads to … outside the EU would leverage EU R&D investments as well. …
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Agricultural and forestry activities cover the majority of the EU territory: in particular agriculture is the main lad … use type, accounting for more than 41% of the land use in the EU15, while in the new Member States this share ranges …
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This paper provides an initial analysis of the EU ETS based on the installation-level data for verified emissions and …
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The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) is a landmark environmental policy, representing the world's first … participation and flexible abatement strategies make the EU ETS a powerful instrument of cross sectoral integration of environmental … governance. The EU ETS shows characteristics of the decision making processes and institutions engaged, the tools and instruments …
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