difficulty in further carbon mitigation, inevitable emissions growth due to rising living standards, and coal-dominant energy … centrally-directed policies, the paper in particular discusses ways to incentivize local governments not to focus on economic …

-called "when flexibility" controversy since the early 1990s dealing with the optimal timing of mitigation efforts and the Social …

climate change policies and establishing the first regional Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). These policies, however, raise … concerns are supported by quantitative evidence. It thus focuses on key economic indicators, such as costs, competitiveness and … the potential extra-EU spillover of the EU mitigation policy with a particular attention to developing countries. The …

policies on long-term mitigation targets. We define a weak-policy baseline scenario, which extrapolates the current policy … investments in fossil-based capacities, (c) higher long-term mitigation costs and carbon prices and (d) stronger transitional … above pre-industrial levels, only a few concrete climate policies and measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have …

impatience, and the private cost of geoengineering. We determine the impact of asymmetry on mitigation and SRM activities …, concentration of GHGs, and global temperature, and we examine whether a trade-off actually emerges between mitigation and SRM. Our … results could provide some insights into a currently emerging debate regarding mitigation and SRM methods to control climate …

-regional, multi-sectoral CGEmodel DART is used to simulate the effects of the current policies in the year 2012 when the Kyoto targets …