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In 2010, the U.S. government adopted its first consistent estimates of the social cost of carbon (SCC) for government-wide use in regulatory cost-benefit analysis. Here, the authors examine a number of limitations of the estimates identified in the U.S. government report and elsewhere and review...
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Drawing upon climate change damage specifications previously proposed in the literature that the authors have calibrated to a common level of damages at 2.5 C, the authors examine the effect upon the social cost of carbon (SCC) of varying damage specifications in a DICE-like integrated...
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Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) couple representations of the natural climate system with models of the global economy to evaluate climate and energy policies. Such models are currently used to derive the benefits of carbon mitigation policies through estimates of the social cost of carbon...
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The social cost of carbon - or marginal damage caused by an additional ton of carbon dioxide emissions - has been estimated by a U.S. government working group at $21/tCO2 in 2010. That calculation, however, omits many of the biggest risks associated with climate change, and downplays the impact...
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Hintergrund gewinnt die klimapolitische Strategie der Anpassung zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die ökonomischen …The option of climate adaptation is becoming more and more important in climate change policy. A large number of … countries has already initiated a process of adaptation by drafting strategies or catalogues of measures. Hence there is an …
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Auf nationaler und auf europäischer Ebene sind die zuvor bestehenden Klimaziele deutlich verschärft worden. Die neuen Vorgaben, mit denen in Deutschland 2045 und in der EU27 bis 2050 Treibhausgasneutralität erreicht werden soll, werden ebenso dargestellt wie die Instrumente, mit denen die...
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adaptation policies as well as recovery policies. …
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Der Klimawandel wird einen tiefgreifenden Einfluss sowohl auf die europäische als auch die globale Wirtschaft haben … Klimawandel ergeben. Einige Beobachtende fordern aber weitreichendere Maßnahmen, die ebenso den Übergang zu einer emissionsarmen … die bisherige akademische Forschung, dass der Einsatz geldpolitischer Instrumente, um den Klimawandel zu beeinflussen …
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grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change … should focus mainly on adaptation to cope with the consequences of climate change. This is not a recommendation that such …
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