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We analyzed the effects of 10,748 weather events on attention to climate change between December 2011 and November 2014 … about climate change in the local area around the time of each event. Coastal floods, droughts, wildfires, strong wind, hail … increases in attention to climate change, beyond the purely descriptive information provided by the weather forecasts directly …
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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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modeling or technical change and RnD investments and the analysis of cooperative and non-cooperative climate policies. Moreover … implement the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) set of scenarios and RCP based climate policies to provide a new set of … climate scenarios. In this paper, we describe in detail the mathematical formulation of the WITCH model, the solution method …
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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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We study the effect of leadership in an experimental threshold public "bad" game, where we manipulate both the relative returns of two investments (the more productive of which causes a negative externality) and the extent to which the gains from leadership diffuse to the group. The game...
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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
We propose a novel framework for the economic assessment of climate-change policy. Our main point of departure from … performance vis-à-vis some intertemporal objective function. Consistent to the nature of climate-change policy making, our model …
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This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are …' participation is uncertain and again we compute the costs of climate policy in developed and developing countries. We find that … delayed participation of NA1 countries has a negative impact on climate policy costs. Economic inefficiencies can be as large …
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