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Climate risks and carbon prices: Revising the social cost of carbon
Ackerman, Frank; Stanton, Elizabeth A. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-10, pp. 1-25
The social cost of carbon - or marginal damage caused by an additional ton of carbon dioxide emissions - has been estimated by a U.S. government working group at $21/tCO2 in 2010. That calculation, however, omits many of the biggest risks associated with climate change, and downplays the impact...
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Global inventory of Wetlands and their role in the carbon cycle
Mitra, Sudip; Wassmann, Reiner; Vlek, Paul L. G. - 2003
published world maps on wetland resources only coincide in 20-30 % of the identified wetland area. Our compilation of data on … conventions and regional policies, but extensive wetland area has been degraded in many developing countries. These continuing … can moreover sequester additional carbon from the atmosphere in form of soil organic matter. Pristine wetland soils are a …
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Regional and sectoral estimates of the social cost of carbon: An application of FUND
Anthoff, David; Rose, Steven; Tol, Richard S. J.; … - 2011
The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the benefit of reducing CO2 emissions by one ton today. As such it is a key input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates of the social cost of carbon from the integrated assessment model FUND 3.5...
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On international equity weights and national decision making on climate change
Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2008
Estimates of the marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions require the aggregation of monetised impacts of climate change over people with different incomes and in different jurisdictions. Implicitly or explicitly, such estimates assume a social welfare function and hence a particular...
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On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change
Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S.J. - 2007
Estimates of the marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions require the aggregation of monetised impacts of climate change over people with different incomes and in different jurisdictions. Implicitly or explicitly, such estimates assume a social welfare function and hence a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312619
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Faktencheck Agrarpolitik: Beitrag der EU-Agrarreform zur Bewirtschaftung organischer Böden im Einklang mit Natur- und Klimaschutz - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
Röder, Norbert; Osterburg, Bernhard; Liebersbach, Horst; … - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie baut auf den im Dezember 2013 veröffentlichen Basisrechtsakten zur künftigen Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) der EU auf und nimmt die möglichen Auswirkungen dieses Politikpaketes auf den Moorschutz in den Blick. Einführend werden dazu die Ziele des Natur- und...
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The time evolution of the social cost of carbon: An application of FUND
Anthoff, David; Rose, Steven; Tol, Richard S. J.; … - 2011
We estimate the growth rate of the social cost of carbon. This is an indication of the optimal rate of acceleration of greenhouse gas emission reduction policy over time. We find that the social cost of carbon increases by 1.3% to 3.9% per year, with a central estimate of 2.2%. Previous studies...
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Willingness to Pay for Individual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: Evidence from a Large Field Experiment
Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo - 2011
In the climate policy debate, a rhetoric has evolved that attributes a high potential to "voluntary climate action". We turn to the population of Germany, the fourth largest cumulative GHG emitter, to obtain an Internet-)representative estimate of the individual willingness to abate one ton of...
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The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives
Böhringer, Christoph - 2003
International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be achieved during the commitment period 2008-2012. While proponents of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in...
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Mitigation of methane emissions: a rapid and cost-effective response to climate change
Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - 2009
Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon according to the latest IPCC report. Thus, CH4...
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