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The Internalization of Externalities in the Production of Electricity : Willingness to Pay for the Attributes of a Policy for Renewable Energy
Longo, Alberto; Markandya, Anil; Petrucci, Marta - 2015
This paper investigates the willingness to pay of a sample of residents of Bath, England, for a hypothetical program that promotes the production of renewable energy. Using choice experiments, we assess the preferences of respondents for a policy for the promotion of renewable energy that (i)...
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Policy- v. individual heterogeneity in the benefits of climate change mitigation : evidence from a stated-preference survey
Alberini, Anna; Šcasný, Milan; Bigano, Andrea - 2016 - Last revision: 8 December 2016
The implementation of decarbonization policies depends crucially on the public’s willingness to pay for them. We use stated preference methods to investigate the public’s preferences for such policies. We ask three research questions. First, does the willingness to pay (WTP) for each ton of...
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Energy Democracy, Renewables and the Paris Agreement
Daly, Angela; Archbold, Caitlin - 2018
This chapter examines the relationship between renewable energy, especially in the form of ‘energy democracy’ initiatives, and international law. Both instruments under the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, including the Paris Agreement, and other international law instruments such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116403
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Fiddling as the World Burns : How Climate Change Urgently Requires a Paradigm Shift in the Permitting of Renewable Energy Projects
Thaler, Jeff - 2015
This article is among the first to integrate current climate change science, particularly ongoing impacts and predicted impacts, with a detailed roadmap for substantial reform of our environmental processes for reviewing proposed renewable energy projects. Most existing articles either focus...
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Airline Bailouts and Climate Change Re-Regulation
Dellinger, Myanna F. - 2020
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Waiting for Godot? The Case for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Small Island States
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
Global warming is the most significant threat to ecosystems and people’s health and living standards, especially in small island states in the Caribbean and elsewhere. This paper contributes to the debate by analyzing different options to scale up climate change mitigation and adaptation. In...
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Adapting Energy and Environmental Policy for Climate Change
Flatt, Victor Byers - 2012
The United States has long suffered from a schizophrenia about energy policy. The importance of one of the factors in energy policy, the environment, has never been formally defined. Climate change adds another distinct layer to this complexity, as neither energy policies nor environmental...
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Betting on Climate Policy : Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming
Lucas, Jr., Gary - 2019
Global warming, sea level rise, and extreme weather events have made climate change a top priority for policymakers across the globe. But which policies are best suited to tackle the enormous challenges presented by our changing climate? This Article proposes that policymakers turn to prediction...
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Roles for State Energy Regulators in Climate Change Mitigation
Hofmeister, Brandon - 2013
The construction of new power plants in the United States carries the risk of significantly contributing to global climate change. After concluding that the current federal regulatory response to climate change risks from power plants is inadequate, this Article examines three potential roles...
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Valuing meteorological services in resource-constrained settings : application to smallholder farmers in the Peruvian Altiplano
Brausmann, Alexandra; Flubacher, Moritz; Lechthaler, Filippo - 2019
developing world. In this paper we provide estimates of frost warnings valuation in the context of small-scale quinoa production … cycle of a quinoa-producing household, in order to derive a theoretical valuation of frost warnings. Calibrating the model … to our data we provide estimates of potential frost-warning valuation which are in the range of $30-50 per household and …
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