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Climate policy, irreversibilities and global economic shocks

Banerjee, Anwesha; Barbieri, Stefano; Konrad, Kai A. - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634476

Climate Experts’ Views on Hydrocarbon Energy Phase-Out

Konrad, Kai A.; Sherif, Raisa - 2022

Climate experts delegated by countries to COP 24 and COP 25 show much agreement on international energy policy measures in the context of climate protection. Experts on average also agree with the proposal of compensating countries with large oil and gas reserves for not extracting them. But...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081625

Does a Clean Development Mechanism Facilitate International Environmental Agreements?

Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

When politicians negotiate in international climate conventions they may suffer from incomplete information about each other's preferences about reaching an agreement. As is known, this may cause failure to reach an efficient cooperative agreement. We study the role of the clean development...

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The role of economic policy in climate change adaptation

Konrad, Kai A.; Thum, Marcel - 2012

In diesem Arbeitspapier wird die Rolle des öffentlichen Sektors bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel behandelt. Zuerst … werden die Möglichkeiten zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel definiert und kategorisiert. Dann werden die volkswirtschaftlichen … Hauptbereiche, in denen der öffentliche Sektor eine Rolle bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel spielen kann, Folgende sind …

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The Role of Economic Policy in Climate Change Adaptation

Konrad, Kai A. - 2012

This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and categorization of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of adaptation tasks to either the private or the public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099647

Adaptation, mitigation and risk-taking in climate policy

Auerswald, Heike; Konrad, Kai A.; Thum, Marcel - 2011

The future consequences of climate change are highly uncertain. Today, the exact size of possible future damages are widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009695

The role of economic policy in climate change adaptation

Konrad, Kai A.; Thum, Marcel - 2012

This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of adaptation tasks to either the private or the public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630628

Adaptation, Mitigation and Risk-Taking in Climate Policy

Auerswald, Heike - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093904

Unilateral action and negotiations about climate policy

Konrad, Kai A.; Thum, Marcel - 2011

We analyze bargaining over international climate agreements in a setting with incomplete information about abatement costs. Unilateral commitment to high abatement reduces the gains from global cooperation. This reduces the probability of reaching efficient international environmental...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407577

Effective climate policy needs non-combustion uses for hydrocarbons

Konrad, Kai A.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik - 2021

A central issue that is discussed in climate policy is the fear of owners of stocks of fossil hydrocarbon deposits that high CO2 taxes and bans on the combustion use of hydrocarbons will turn their stocks into stranded assets. They might react by extracting and selling their reserves today: a...

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