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Modeling linkages between climate policy and land use: an overview

van der Werf, Edwin; Peterson, Sonja - 2007

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 in general equilibrium: The influence of world energy prices

Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - 2004

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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The voracity effect and climate change: The impact of clean technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011

We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...

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International environmental agreements in the presence of adaptation

Marrouch, Walid; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011

We show that adaptive measures undertaken by countries in the face of climate change, apart from directly reducing the damage caused by climate change, may also indirectly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the stable size of international agreements on emission reductions....

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The Kyoto Protocol and the Effect of Existing and Planned Measures in the Agricultural and Forestry Sector in the EU25

Giupponi, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Buchner, Barbara; … - 2007

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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Over-Allocation or Abatement? A Preliminary Analysis of the Eu Ets Based on the 2005 Emissions Data

Buchner, Barbara; Ellerman, Denny - 2006

This paper provides an initial analysis of the EU ETS based on the installation-level data for verified emissions and …

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Governance and Environmental Policy Integration in Europe: What Can We learn from the EU Emission Trading Scheme?

Catenacci, Michela; Buchner, Barbara; Sgobbi, Alessandra - 2007

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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