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During recent years increased attention has been given to second-generation wood-based bioenergy. The carbon stored in the forest is highest when there is little or no harvest from the forest. Increasing the harvest from a forest, in order to produce more bioenergy, may thus conflict with the...
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Many new and ambitious energy efficiency and conservation laws are being enacted at all levels of government - and with greater financial incentives than provided previously. These innovations are intended to overcome or minimize market barriers such as principal-agent problems, information and...
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This paper explains how, in the context of incomplete coordination among all countries, unilateral policies that might at first sight seem pro-green could actually turn out to harm the global environment. The free-riding motives and the difficulty of reaching an effective international...
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We investigate how irreversibility in "dirty" and "clean" capital stocks affects optimal climate policy, from both …
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We develop a one-dimensional energy balance climate model with heat transportation across locations. We introduce the … impact of thermal transport across latitudes on welfare inequality. -- Energy Balance Climate Models ; Heat Diffusion …
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impacts. Values consistently incorporate health and agricultural impacts of air quality along with climate damages. The latter … include damages associated with aerosol-induced hydrologic cycle changes that lead to net climate benefits when reducing …
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Climate feedback mechanisms that have the potential to intensify global warming have been omitted almost completely in … the integrated assessment of climate change and the economy so far. With the present paper we try to narrow this gap in …
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Intense climate-related disasters - floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves - have been on the rise worldwide. At the … side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising … population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of …
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We couple a one-dimensional energy balance climate model with heat transportation across latitudes, with an economic …
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We conduct a review of the existing academic literature to outline possible links between climate change and inequality …, measures that individuals and governments take to adapt to climate change and transition to lower emissions risk increasing … research on the nexus between inequality and climate change. …
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