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Closed-form integrated assessment and uncertainty

Traeger, Christian - 2015

-form expressions of welfare loss from shocks and epistemological uncertainty identify the interaction of (intertemporal) risk attitude …

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Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments : the transport sector in Latvia

Dobrinevski, Alexander; Jachnik, Raphaël - 2020

Mitigating climate change requires aligning real economy investments with climate objectives. This pilot study measures the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated at EUR 1.5 billion per year on average. To do so,...

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What we know and don't know about climate change, and implications for policy

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2020 - This draft: May 11, 2020

There is a lot we know about climate change, but there is also a lot we don't know. Even if we knew how much CO2 will be emitted over the coming decades, we wouldn't know how much temperatures will rise as a result. And even if we could predict the extent of warming that will occur, we can say...

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Potential climate risks in financial markets : a literature overview

Hjort, Ingrid - 2016 - Last modified Feb 3, 2016

financial markets. The climate related risk is divided into three subcategories, the environmental uncertainty, the economic … climate risk and the climate policy risk, which all of them may affect the markets directly or indirectly. The perspective is … market valuation of the climate risk. …

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Offset carbon emissions or pay a price premium for avoiding them? : a cross-country analysis of motives for climate protection activities

Schwirplies, Claudia; Ziegler, Andreas - 2015

This paper contributes to the economic literature on pure and impure public goods by considering two alternatives for contributing to the public good climate protection: compensating carbon emissions from conventional consumption or paying higher prices for climate-friendly products. We...

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On the interrelation between carbon offsetting and other voluntary climate protection activities : theory and empirical evidencey

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014

This paper provides theoretical and empirical insights on the extent to which the availability of carbon offsetting may substitute the individual use of other carbon-reducing measures. Theoretically, we demonstrate an ambiguous impact of offsetting on the use of other measures and derive...

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The determinants of voluntary carbon offsetting : a micro-econometric analysis of individuals from Germany and the United States ; conference paper

Schwirplies, Claudia; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014 - Preliminary version

This paper examines the determinants of voluntary individual carbon offsetting, i.e. the financial compensation of emissions from energy use. In contrast to former studies in this field, we particularly consider a comprehensive set of factors that are discussed in the context of voluntary...

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Corporate greenhouse gas emission reporting : a stocktaking of government schemes

Kauffmann, Céline; Tébar Less, Cristina; Teichmann, … - 2012

This paper provides an overview of current government schemes promoting corporate reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and analyses their main building blocks. It describes the drivers and challenges for governments, companies and investors in dealing with GHG reporting and includes 4...

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An economic assessment of soil carbon sequestration with biochar in Germany

Teichmann, Isabel - 2015

Biochar is a carbon-rich solid obtained from the heating of biomass in the (near) absence of oxygen in a process called pyrolysis. Its soil incorporation is increasingly discussed as a means to sequester carbon in soils and, thus, to help mitigate climate change. When deployed in agricultural...

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Carbon tax burdens on low-income households : a reason for delaying climate policy

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2015

This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...

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