temperature and environmental factors, and it is extremely versatile in computing out-of-sample forecasts. …

This paper is a first attempt to investigate the effect of climate on the demand for different energy vectors from … different final users. The ultimate motivation for this is to arrive to a consistent evaluation of the impact of climate change … industrial users in OECD and (a few) non-OECD countries. It turns out that temperature has a very different influence on the …

Products, Coal, Electricity) is expressed as a function of various factors, including temperature. Parameter values are … levels and sensitivity to temperature variations. These features make the model results especially valuable in the analysis … of climate change impacts. Results are interpreted in terms of derived demand for heating and cooling. Non …

The present stalemate in climate negotiations has led policy analysts and economists to explore the possible emergence … of alternative climate regimes. This paper explores the idea of replacing international cooperation on greenhouse gas … emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea – recently …

Within the political, scientific and economic debate on climate change, the process of evaluating climate policies ex … to assess the relative performances of different climate policies, when long term economic, social and environmental … climate policies and is here presented through an application to a sample of eleven global climate policies, considered as …

) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First …, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield numerical results that do not support the conclusion that ambitious climate …

emission reductions but cooperates on the development of new, climate friendly technologies that reduce the costs of abatement …

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 …

No international regime on climate change is going to be fully effective in controlling GHG emissions without the … issue linkage, transfers or burden sharing as tools to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement, this … paper aims at exploring whether a different policy approach could lead more countries to adopt effective climate control …