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"Mitigation, adaptation, suffering" : in search of the right mix in the face of climate change
Tulkens, Henry; Van Steenberghe, Vincent - 2009
The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage 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...
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Incentives and stability of international climate coalitions : an integrated assessment
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; … - 2011
assumptions concerning the pure rate of time preference, the social welfare aggregator and the extent of climate damages. We focus …
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Priority for the worse off and the social cost of carbon
Adler, Matthew D.; Anthoff, David; Bosetti, Valentina; … - 2016
reduction in current consumption that produces a loss in social welfare equivalent to that caused by the emission of a ton of CO …2. The standard approach is to calculate the SCC using a discounted-utilitarian social welfare function (SWF)-one that … welfare economics, but has been, thus far, little used in climate scholarship. The core idea is to give greater weight to well …
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