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The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development … of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change … factor productivity, and climate sensitivity. It estimates the pdfs of key output variables, including CO2 concentrations …
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This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
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welfare economics, but has been, thus far, little used in climate scholarship. The core idea is to give greater weight to well …
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The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development … of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change … factor productivity, and climate sensitivity. It estimates the pdfs of key output variables, including CO2 concentrations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451571
This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500170
Climate change may intensify tropical cyclone activities and amplify their negative economic effects. We simulate the … direct economic impact of tropical cyclones enhanced by climate change with the integrated assessment model FUND 3.4. The … results show that in the base case, the direct economic damage of tropical cyclones ascribed to the effect of climate change …
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Kampf gegen den Klimawandel gegeben. Doch die Chancen, in Kopenhagen ein neues Klimaprotokoll und somit einen erfolgreichen … ungleiche Verteilung der prognostizierten Schäden durch den Klimawandel. Insbesondere arme Regionen werden einen hohen Schaden …
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because, in FUND, vulnerability to climate change falls over time (with development) while in the long run carbon dioxide is a … rising concentrations. -- climate change ; social cost ; carbon dioxide ; methane ; nitrous oxide ; sulphur hexafluoride …
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input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates of the social cost of … scenarios and values for the climate sensitivity parameter. -- Climate change ; social cost of carbon …
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