with respect to its position on climate policy. As a consequence, the factors that shape Russia's behaviour in the context … of climate negotiations received increasing attention. The main focus has been on the economic and international aspects … significantly contributed to Russia's final decision, namely domestic forces. These factors have often been overlooked in the …

cooperative climate agreement. Different incentive structures are discussed for those countries, namely the US, Russia and China …, that are most important in the climate negotiation process. Our analysis confirms the conjecture that, by appropriately … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …

The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate … operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts and adaptation from an economic perspective. In order to do so, first a … impacts and adaptation challenges that are likely to be implied by climate change in the next decades. The analysis of the …

zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on … erosion and land loss due to sea-level rise. Methodologies now increasingly consider the wide range of climate and impact …

terrestrial climate system, and provides further evidence for the need to radically transform - this century - our global … uncertain knowledge today of the climate sensitivity to a doubling in them atmospheric CO2 concentration. Also the roles of …

model is presented which takes into account both continuous climate-feedback damages as well as the possibility of a … climate catastrophe is a major argument for greenhouse gas abatement even in absence of continuous damage. Special attention …

reductions. Five main world regions are considered and their incentives to sign an international agreement on climate change …

discuss some practical implications of the transfer scheme for current climate negotiations. …

The paper proves the existence and uniqueness of a noncooperative steady state in the context of a model of climate …