The uncertainty surrounding both costs and benefits associated with global climate change mitigation creates enormous … hurdles for scientists, stakeholders, and decisionmakers. A key issue is how policy choices balance uncertainty about costs … relative/intensity emissions limits—demonstrating that price controls and intensity emissions limits favor certainty about cost …

change, and iii) that the only policy tool needed is to price carbon emissions. Second, to argue that climate change cuts …The purpose of this article is twofold: First to discuss three misconceptions in the debate on climate policies: i …) that de-growth is necessary, ii) that the market economy is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to climate …

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 …

autonomy of each firm becomes important. Carbon credit can be taken as one of the economic measures for controlling global … warming. The upper limits of CO2 emissions are assigned to each firm or country, and the carbon credit is defined as a credit … controlled by buying and selling the carbon credit is called emission right trading. The present study focusses on the carbon …

(BaU) and also some climate change and policy scenarios. -- Climate change ; CO2 emissions ; Energy intensity ; Emission … intensity reductions as targets for their climate change policies. In theory, this may seem to allow for both economic growth …Trade, economic development, and climate change issues are closely linked and this has significant implications for the …

A two-tier climate club exploits the comparative advantage of large countries to mete out punishments through trade …, while taking their capacity to resist punishment as a constraint. Countries outside the coalition price carbon at a fixed … fraction of the average carbon price adopted within the coalition, or face tariffs. Coalition countries abate more since doing …

harmonized. This report addresses key developments that both multilateral development banks (MDBs)—major actors in public climate …

, if necessary, by carbon taxes in areas not covered by trading. Achieving a significant cut in emissions requires a shift … from energy-intensive industries to low-carbon ones. Korea is strongly committed to promoting green growth through its Five … efficiently targeted so as to develop green technologies, while avoiding the risks inherent in industrial policy. …

-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): France (Stratégie National Bas …