Showing 1 - 7 of 7
Denmark’s green growth strategy focuses on moving the energy system away from fossil fuels and investing in green technologies, while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On the whole, current policies should allow Denmark to reach near-term climate change targets, but may not be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690980
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003835458
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790447
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865620
There are local air pollution benefits from pursuing greenhouse gases emissions mitigation policies, which lower the net costs of emission reductions and thereby may strengthen the incentives to participate in a global climate change mitigation agreement. The main purpose of this paper is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444457
Considering the costs and risks of inaction, ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is economically rational. However, success in abating world emissions will ultimately require a least-cost set of policy instruments that is applied as widely as possible across all emission sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444590
This paper examines the cost of a range of national, regional and global mitigation policies and the corresponding incentives for countries to participate in ambitious international mitigation actions. The paper illustrates the scope for available instruments to strengthen these incentives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446764