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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements: should action in the EU and US be postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2008

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...

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How does climate policy affect technical change? : an analysis of the direction and pace of technical progress in a climate-economy model

Nicita, Lea; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele - 2009

dynamic integrated regional model of the world economy. In this version, a non-energy R&D Sector, which enhances the …

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Modeling biased technical change : implications for climate policy

Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Nicita, Lea - 2010

using the World Induced Technical Change model, WITCH. Three different versions of themodel are proposed. The starting set …

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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors

Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010

This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...

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El Niño and Indian droughts : a scoping exercise

Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to …

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Adaptation, mitigation and "green" R&D to combat global climate change : insights from an empirical integrated assessment exercise

Bosello, Francesco - 2010

This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatement is enriched with a planned-adaptation module where a defensive...

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Alternative paths toward a low carbon world

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2010

contains several idealistic assumptions that could be violated in the real world where some technologies may not be fully … available, technology transfers and diffusion are imperfect, some world regions may not accept to reduce their GHG emissions …

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The tradable permits approach to protecting the commons : what have we learned?

Tietenberg, Thomas H. - 2002

control, water supply and fisheries management. Opening with a brief summary of the theory behind these programs and both the … economic and environmental consequences anticipated by this theory, it proceeds with a description of the common elements these … consequences of adopting these approaches is juxtaposed with the expectations created by the economic theory of tradable permits …

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Interactions between climate and trade policies : a survey

Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - 2004

Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...

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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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