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premium into the model, results show a substantial increase in both mitigation and adaptation, reflecting a more conservative … attitude by the social planner. Interestingly, adaptation is stimulated more than mitigation in the first half of the century …, while the situation reverses afterwards. Over the century, the risk premium correction fosters more mitigation, which …
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costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level … for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the … for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures. …
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in … to address with mitigation Our second conclusion is that supporting adaptation in developing countries should be …
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It has become commonly accepted that a successful climate strategy should compound mitigation and adaptation. The … accurate combination between adaptation and mitigation that can best address climate change is still an open question. This … paper proposes a framework that integrates mitigation, adaptation, and climate change residual damages into an optimisation …
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adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity-building to analyse the optimal portfolio of … investments in mitigation followed by large adaptation expenditures a few decades later. Hence, the possibility to adapt does not …
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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 … problems. In an attempt to advance in the modelling of adaptation within IAM models, we apply this methodology to shed some …
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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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induced by climate change in the next decades. Autonomous adaptation induced by changes in relative prices and in stocks of …
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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the … environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and …
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Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. Given the paramount importance of cities, China is practicing low … characteristics of China's LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China's LCC development …
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