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Using evidence from the EU emissions trading system, we collect verified emissions of close to 4000 highly polluting and mostly non-listed firms responsible for 26% of EU's emissions. Over the period 2013-2019, we find a non-linear relationship between leverage and emissions. A firm with higher...
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Various stakeholders are increasingly encouraging companies from the real economy to adopt measures facilitating their transition towards carbon neutrality. In this context, companies are expected to implement forward-looking strategies and climate-related reporting practices using scenario...
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Alterations in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures due to climate change will most likely translate into yield reductions in desirable crops. In this particular context, the object of this paper is to lay down findings and results for projected yield impacts in Morocco using a...
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The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some fundamental properties of the considered uncertainties. The application … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …
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Climate Engineering, and in particular Solar Radiation Management (SRM) has become a widely discussed climate policy option to study in recent years. However, its potentially strategic nature and unforeseen side effects provide major policy and scientific challenges. We study the role of the SRM...
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difficulties identified with IAMs, the choice of the risk aversion parameter and the underestimation of damages, are also directly …
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The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some fundamental properties of the considered uncertainties. The application … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221085
derive a general analytic formula for the "risk premium" governing the resulting climate policy. The formula generalizes … making under uncertainty. It clarifies the distinct roles of risk aversion, prudence, characteristics of the damage … formulation, and future policy response. We show that an optimal response to uncertainty substantially reduces the risk premium. …
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that, even conditional on the net-zero 2050 scenario, there remains a significant risk of elevated temperatures for at …
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This paper presents an operational framework for assessing the trajectories of production, energy, emissions, and capital accumulation to ensure the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The framework combines widely used methodologies (STIRPAT, system dynamics, and...
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