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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
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833615
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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 low-income countries. Climate finance solutions have advantages for high …
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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Strategic Climate Policy with Offsets and Incomplete Abatement : Carbon Taxes Versus Cap-and-Trade
Strand, Jon - 2017
implementing a climate policy, facing a (non-policy) fringe of other importers, and a bloc of fuel exporters. The policy bloc uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975982
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Improved Cook Stoves for Climate Change Mitigation? Evidence of Values, Preferences and Carbon Savings from a Choice Experiment in Ethiopia
Dissanayake, Sahan - 2018
This paper investigates household preferences for improved cook stoves using a choice experiment administered in rural Ethiopia, and the cost-effectiveness of an improved stove for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. In Ethiopia, about 96 percent of household energy demand is fulfilled by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912330
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Pathways Toward Zero-Carbon Electricity Required for Climate Stabilization
Audoly, Richard - 2017
integrated assessment models but under-discussed in the policy debate. First, climate stabilization at any level from 2 to 3?C … climate stabilization. In addition, this paper provides cost-effective pathways of the carbon content of electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972579
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How Capital-Based Instruments Facilitate the Transition Toward a Low-Carbon Economy : A Tradeoff between Optimality and Acceptability
Rozenberg, Julie - 2017
This paper compares the temporal profile of efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions induced by two mitigation strategies: a regulation of all emissions with a carbon price and a regulation of emissions embedded in new capital only, using capital-based instruments such as investment regulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973986
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How Do We Prioritize the GHG Mitigation Options? Development of a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve for the Building Sector in Armenia and Georgia
Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017
Armenia and Georgia are taking the climate change agenda seriously and contributing to efforts for mitigating global … climate change through various ways, including preparation of low-carbon development strategies for their future economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968751