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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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Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...
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assistance to South (thus enhancing South's adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …
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policies on long-term mitigation targets. We define a weak-policy baseline scenario, which extrapolates the current policy … the weak policy pathway until 2020 or 2030 before pursuing the long-term mitigation target with global cooperative action … investments in fossil-based capacities, (c) higher long-term mitigation costs and carbon prices and (d) stronger transitional …
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In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...
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light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about … composition of the optimal mix as both persuade the risk-averse social planner to invest more in mitigation. Overall, we identify …
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the potential extra-EU spillover of the EU mitigation policy with a particular attention to developing countries. The …
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recent 2009 Copenhagen Accord, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to combat … uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When catastrophic uncertainty is … concerned mitigation becomes relatively more important as, by curbing emissions, it helps to reduce temperature increase and …
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Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and …
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participations in the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol framework. Although mitigation is not a priority at national or local level, it …: What is the policy space for climate change mitigation and adaptation policy at national and local level and what is … local benefits in terms of local pollution of integrating mitigation policies into local development. However, financial …
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