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Energy and climate change in China
Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele - 2011
The paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China, presenting historical data and scenarios generated using the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH. A Business-as-Usual scenario is compared with four scenarios in which Greenhouse Gases emissions are taxed, at different levels. Key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279619
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Carbon Dioxide Emission Scenarios for the Usa
Tol, Richard S.J. - 2006
A model of carbon dioxide emissions of the USA is presented. The model consists of population, income per capita, economic structure, final and primary energy intensity per sector, primary fuel mix, and emission coefficients. The model is simple enough to be calibrated to observations since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312454
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HIV
Luboobi, Livingstone S.; Mugisha, Joseph Y.T. - 2005
Three-quarters of the world's AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs …, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa … submit designs for a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic. The pandemic is changing the demographic structure of Africa and wiping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312602
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Lessons from the Polder: Is Dutch CO2-Taxation Optimal?
Vollebergh, Herman - 2004
This paper evaluates energy tax reform in the Netherlands between 1988 and 2002 from a climate change perspective. A tax on fuels and the so-called regulatory energy tax since 1996 are examples of indirect and non-uniform taxation of emissions. The overall tax base and rate structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324883
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Weather Impacts On Natural, Social And Economic System (WISE) Part II: Individual Perception of Climate Extremes in Italy
Galeotti, Marzio; Goria, Alessandra; Mombrini, Paolo; … - 2004
This paper focuses on the results of the research work carried out by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) within the WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very warm summers, mild winters and storms, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324909
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Weather Impacts On Natural, Social And Economic System (WISE) Part I: Sectoral Analysis of Climate Impacts in Italy
Galeotti, Marzio; Goria, Alessandra; Mombrini, Paolo; … - 2004
This paper focuses on the results of the research work carried out by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) within the WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very warm summers, mild winters and storms, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324910
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Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Italy
Goria, Alessandra; Gambarelli, Gretel - 2004
The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate aim of the paper is to provide policy makers and experts with a conceptual framework, as well as methodological and operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324977
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A General Equilibrium Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Tourism
Bigano, Andrea; Berrittella, Maria; Roson, Roberto; … - 2004
This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE model. The model is first re-calibrated at some future years, obtaining hypothetical benchmark equilibria, which are subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325003
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The amenity value of the Italian climate
Maddison, David; Bigano, Andrea - 1997
The hedonic literature suggests that locations with more favourable characteristics should display compensating wage and residential land price differentials. Using the hedonic price technique estimates of the willingness to pay for small changes in some key characteristics of the Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608285
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Sustainable greenhouse policies: The role of non-CO 2 gases
Michaelis, Peter - 1997
This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to sustainable greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of the five major greenhouse gases at an ecologically determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608327