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climate change now involves both mitigation to address the cause and adaptation as a response to already ongoing or expected … here is, whether adaptation options will be implemented voluntarily by companies or not. The paper argues that this has to …
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
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widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast …
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in developing countries is discussed. This tendency shows that adaptation is likely to be advanced relative to mitigation … on the political agenda. Therefore, we analyze the economic consequences of the timing of mitigation and adaptation in a … behavior, the activity in mitigation deteriorates when adaptation is advanced. As a consequence, the resulting subgame …
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This paper studies the influence of productivity, pollution sensitivity, and adaptive capacity on optimal mitigation … and adaptation in a two country global pollution model. We investigate the effects of changes of these parameters on the … allocation of emissions, adaptation expenditures, and welfare. In our analysis we distinguish between cooperative and …
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each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether. …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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