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This document describes economic baseline projections to 2050 for several world regions. It describes how socio-economic drivers are used to create a consistent projection of economic activity for the coming decades, applying the general framework of “conditional convergence”. This economic...
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This paper assesses some welfare consequences of climate change mitigation policies. In the same vein as Becker, Philipson and Soares (2005), a simple index of economic progress weighs in the monetary cost induced by mitigation policies as well as the health benefits arising from the reduction...
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The importance of cities in climate policy stems from the simple reality that they house the majority of the world’s population, two-thirds of world energy use and over 70% of global energy use emissions. At the international level, global carbon markets have become an important new source of...
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Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we demonstrate an approach to assess future risks and quantify the benefits of adaptation options at a city-scale, with application to flood risk in Mumbai. In 2005, Mumbai experienced...
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Le Mécanisme pour un Développement Propre (MDP) affiche un double objectif, qui devrait s'articuler pour favoriser la pérennité du régime climatique de Kyoto. D'une part, il vise à flexibiliser les engagements contraignants de réduction des émissions des pays de l'Annexe I et d'autre...
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Concern that unilateral greenhouse gas emission reductions could foster carbon leakage and undermine the international competitiveness of domestic industry has led to growing calls for carbon-based border-tax adjustments (BTAs). This paper uses a global general equilibrium model to assess the...
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Ce texte présente la proposition Daly-Correa de taxe et de compensation internationales pour un gel de l'exploitation pétrolière en Amazonie équatorienne - initiative Yasuni-ITT -, jusqu'à son abandon par le Président de l'Équateur, Rafael Correa, le 15 août 2013. Les enjeux sont le...
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La communauté scientifique est en train d'élaborer une nouvelle génération de scénarios pour éclairer les choix que nous avons à faire face au changement climatique. Cette nouvelle génération de scénarios permet d'intégrer de manière plus complète les mécanismes qui régissent le...
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