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Delayed action and uncertain targets : how much will climate policy cost?

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Sgobbi, Alessandra; … - 2008

Despite the growing concern about actual on-going climate change, there is little consensus about the scale and timing of actions needed to stabilise the concentrations of greenhouse gases. Many countries are unwilling to implement effective mitigation strategies, at least in the short-term, and...

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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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Abatement cost uncertainty and policy instrument selection under a stringent climate policy : a dynamic analysis

Bosetti, Valentina; Golub, Alexander; Markandya, Anil; … - 2008

This paper investigates the relative economic and environmental outcomes of price versus quantity mechanisms to control GHG emissions when abatement costs are uncertain. In particular, we evaluate the impacts on policy costs, CO2 emissions and energy R&D for a stringent mitigation target of 550...

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