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Robust Incentives and the Design of a Climate Change Governance Regime

Nemet, Gregory F. - 2015

In building a governance regime to address climate change, should we prioritize the development of global institutions or national ones? This paper adds insight to the issue of how much international coordination on climate governance is optimal by focusing on two neglected characteristics of...

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Covid-19 and climate change : a tale of two global problems

Fuentes, Rolando; Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; … - 2020

In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the Covid19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same...

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Driving low-carbon innovations for climate neutrality

Cervantes, Mario - 2023

that science, technology, innovation, and industrial (STI&I) policies focusing on developing and deploying low …-carbon technologies are crucial to achieving carbon neutrality. It notes however that the current level of innovation is insufficient to … recommendations for an effective innovation policy for net-zero, including its interaction with the broader climate policy package. …

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Advances and slowdowns in carbon capture and storage technology development

D'Aprile, Aurora - 2016

With the long term goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and "to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C", the Paris Agreement puts renewed attention on the portfolio of technologies needed to achieve consistent emission reductions...

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The cold economy

Peters, Toby; Sayin, Leyla - 2022

Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people's livelihoods, productivity, health, food, and nutritional security. While business-as-usual demand projections suggest 19 new cooling appliances will be sold every second by...

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The political economy of clean energy transitions at sub-national level : understanding the role of international climate regimes in energy policy in two Brazilian states

Puppim de Oliveira, Jose Antonio; Andrade, Celio - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016

This paper examines the political economy aspects, particularly the influence of the Clean Development Mechanism, in clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The different mechanisms for responding to climate change are financing...

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Natural Gas and Climate Change Policies

Tavoni, Massimo - 2015

The development of unconventional gas extraction has led to significant declines in gas prices, recently followed by a large drop of oil prices. This is also the year which is supposed to deliver the long awaited post 2020 climate agreement. This article brings different pieces of research...

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Climate change and the macro economy

Andersson, Malin; Baccianti, Claudio; Morgan, Julian - 2020

. At the same time, these measures could also foster innovation, generate fiscal revenues and dampen inflationary pressures …

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Regional agreements to address climate change : scope, promise, funding, and impacts

Butzlaff, Iris; Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

There is a large number of regional agreements concerning Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, often linked to other regional integration agreements. The most successful one in making effort in reducing carbon emissions is the Emission Trading System by the European Union (EU ETS). Apart from this...

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"The voracity effect" and climate change : the impact of clean technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011

We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...

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