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European forests and carbon sequestration services: an economic assessment of climate change impacts

Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja - 2010

This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors’ knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...

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The "Doomsday" effect in climate policies : why is the present decade so crucial to tackling the climate challenge?

Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste; Espagne, Etienne; Pottier, … - 2012

Despite growing scientific evidence that passing a 2°C temperature increase may trigger tipping points in climate dynamics, most Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) based on Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) with smooth quadratic damage functions are unable to account for the possibility of strong...

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A user's guide for economic instruments in domestic and international climate change policy : what role can they play in a Belgian climate change strategy?

Van Ierland, W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Climate policies : a burden or a gain?

Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2013

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...

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Climate policies and nationally determined contributions : reconciling the needed ambition with the political economy

Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2017

Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5 to 2°C increase. Either target requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major transformation of the economic system. This paper reviews the literature on how policymakers can design climate...

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Insights in a clean energy future for Belgium : impact assessment of the 2030 Climate & Energy Framework

Devogelaer, Danielle; Gusbin, Dominique - 2018

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Alternate solutions in mixing energy tax/subsidy and emission control policies

Heydari, Shahriar Shah; Vestergaard, Niels - 2015

first best solution, i.e., a perfectly designed emission tax or emission cap level. It is shown that in the case an emission … the production levels and energy price to the optimum level. The emission level is also decreased by this combination, but …/subsidy for various regions) makes welfare loss, but still adding a global emission control policy to a set of existing different …

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Pathways to deep decarbonization in Italy

Alloisio, Isabella; Antimiani, Alessandro; Borghesi, Simone - 2015

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), an initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), aims to demonstrate how countries can transform their energy systems by 2050 in order to...

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Optimal climate policy for a ressimistic social planner

Valentini, Edilio; Vitale, Paolo - 2014

In this paper we characterize the preferences of a pessimistic social planner concerned with the potential costs of extreme, low-probability climate events. This pessimistic attitude is represented by a recursive optimization criterion à la Hansen and Sargent (1995) that introduces...

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The politics of market linkage : linking domestic climate policies with international political economy

Green, Jessica F.; Sterner, Thomas; Wagner, Gernot - 2014

After twenty years of global negotiations, the world is still far from a comprehensive climate agreement. The "top-down" approach embodied by the Kyoto Protocol has all but stalled, chiefly due to disagreements over levels of ambition and objections to financial transfers. To avoid those...

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