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stimulate efficient adaptation and mitigation should not exclusively rely on the assumption of the homo oeconomicus, but take … outcomes. This paper systematically reviews what prospect theory can offer to analyse mitigation and adaptation. It is shown …-known puzzles in the climate debate, including (but not limited to) the different uptake of mitigation and adaptation amongst …
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A strategy of inclusion of adaptation and mitigation expenses in a model of optimal growth under threat of climate … (even to extinction forever) and/or triggers a fundamental change of the economic structure. Mitigation expenses reduce the …
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In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...
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The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the...
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Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...
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recent 2009 Copenhagen Accord, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to combat … uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When catastrophic uncertainty is … concerned mitigation becomes relatively more important as, by curbing emissions, it helps to reduce temperature increase and …
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light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about … composition of the optimal mix as both persuade the risk-averse social planner to invest more in mitigation. Overall, we identify …
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the potential extra-EU spillover of the EU mitigation policy with a particular attention to developing countries. The …
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pose a challenge for developing countries as they prepare mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate health. The …
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electricity sector (in Italy, around 2% for WtE and 0.6% for biogas in 2020) they could play a role in a mitigation policy context …
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