Showing 1 - 10 of 1,512
aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive … justice, both within and across generations, but in this paper we survey only studies on the intragenerational aspect, i …. -- Economics of Climate Change ; Intragenerational Equity ; Distributive Justice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798530
Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226086
This paper examines how changes in an international climate regime would affect the European decarbonization strategy and costs through the mechanisms of trade, technology, and innovation. We present the results from the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) model comparison study on European climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257750
After twenty years of global negotiations, the world is still far from a comprehensive climate agreement. The "top …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373734
We study a dynamic game of climate policy design in terms of emissions and solar radiation management (SRM) involving two heterogeneous regions or countries. Countries emit greenhouse gasses (GHGs), and can block incoming radiation by unilateral SRM activities, thus reducing global temperature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459892
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777223
The paper considers a situation where two countries - the North and the South - use a non-traded polluting input to produce the goods for final consumption. The North is more efficient in both, production and abatement processes. The study compares the effects of the transfer of abatement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796284
The climate-trade nexus gains increasing attention as governments are taking great efforts to forge a post-2012 climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This raises the issues of the scope of trade-related measures and of when and how they could be used. This paper discusses how far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823910
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590102
Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful action at the global level. At the same time, it will inevitably be up to the actions of sovereign nations to put in place policies that bring about meaningful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379759