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Biofuels and Climate Change Mitigation : A CGE Analysis Incorporating Land-Use Change
Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017
currently announced by more than 40 countries around the world are implemented by 2020 using crop feedstocks, and if both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975985
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Thirty-Five Years of Long-Run Energy Forecasting : Lessons for Climate Change Policy
Hourcade, Jean-Charles - 2017
This paper sheds light on an implicit dimension of the climate policy debate: the extent to which supply-side response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976548
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Strategic Climate Policy with Offsets and Incomplete Abatement : Carbon Taxes Versus Cap-and-Trade
Strand, Jon - 2017
This paper provides a first analysis of optimal offset policies by a "policy bloc" of fossil fuel importers … implementing a climate policy, facing a (non-policy) fringe of other importers, and a bloc of fuel exporters. The policy bloc uses … fringe. The policy bloc is then shown to prefer a tax over a cap-and-trade scheme, since 1) a tax extracts more rent as fuel …
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Transformational Climate Finance : Donors'Willingness to Support Deep and Transformational Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Lower-Income Countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
finance (transitioning from fossil to non-fossil energy use at scale), and transformational policy-based mitigation finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833615
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Macro-Financial Aspects of Climate Change
Feyen, Erik H.B. - 2020
This paper examines the interaction between macro-financial and climate-related risks. It brings together different strands of the literature on climate-related risks and how these relate to macro-financial management and risks. Physical impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844088
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Understanding the Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies on Shipping : What is the State of the Art of Current Modeling Approaches?
Halim, Ronald Apriliyanto - 2019
The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation measures included in the strategy. This assessment should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894299
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Climate Finance, Carbon Market Mechanisms and Finance 'Blending' As Instruments to Support NDC Achievement Under the Paris Agreement
Strand, Jon - 2019
This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865465
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Assessment of Net Mitigation in the Context of International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Mechanisms
Strand, Jon - 2017
This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969808
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Biogas : Clean Energy Access with Low-Cost Mitigation of Climate Change
Somanathan, Eswaran - 2017
With data from the nearly 6,000 households in the Nepal Living Standards Survey of 2010?11, this paper finds that the mean reduction in household firewood collection associated with use of a biogas plant for cooking is about 1,100 kilograms per year from a mean of about 2,400 kilograms per year....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971481
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Contrasting Future Paths for an Evolving Global Climate Regime
Barrett, Scott - 2017
This paper explores two different conceptions of how an emerging climate regime might evolve to strengthen incentives for more vigorous cooperation in mitigating global climate change. One is the paradigm that has figured most prominently in negotiations to this point: the establishment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976745