through mitigation policies requiring major structural changes to the economy. In order to implement such policies political …

acceptance of climate mitigation policies. …

mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …

policies on long-term mitigation targets. We define a weak-policy baseline scenario, which extrapolates the current policy … the weak policy pathway until 2020 or 2030 before pursuing the long-term mitigation target with global cooperative action … investments in fossil-based capacities, (c) higher long-term mitigation costs and carbon prices and (d) stronger transitional …

assumptions about international carbon markets and mitigation timing, with costs for 2°C scenarios doubling in the absence of … carbon trade, and increasing the later that mitigation is initiated. Under the 2°C scenarios, annual average energy supply … investments are about $300 billion above the BAU levels through 2050. Mitigation policy may substantially reduce air pollution …

impatience, and the private cost of geoengineering. We determine the impact of asymmetry on mitigation and SRM activities …, concentration of GHGs, and global temperature, and we examine whether a trade-off actually emerges between mitigation and SRM. Our … results could provide some insights into a currently emerging debate regarding mitigation and SRM methods to control climate …