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Macroeconomic impacts of carbon capture and storage in China

Vennemo, Haakon; He, Jianwu; Li, Shantong - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 59 (2014) 3, pp. 455-477

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The role of carbon capture and sequestration policies for climate change mitigation

Kalkuhl, Matthias; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 60 (2015) 1, pp. 55-80

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Overcoming barriers to the adoption of climate-friendly practices in agriculture

Wreford, Anita; Ignaciuk, Adriana M.; Gruère, Guillaume - 2017

Considerable efforts have been devoted to understanding and developing technologies and practices that can help the agricultural sector reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The uptake of these "climate-friendly" technologies and practices, however,...

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Adopt or innovate : understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade

Calel, Raphael - 2018

Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant exception. Past cap-and-trade programs have encouraged adoption of existing pollution control technologies, but had little effect on innovation. Several explanations have been...

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Worse off from reduced cost? : the role of policy design under uncertain technological advancement

Weitzel, Matthias - 2014

to renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are different in terms of their effects on international energy … shock to CCS. The channels obtained in the theoretical model can be confirmed in a more complex global computable general …

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Carbon capture from energy-from-waste (EfW) : a low-hanging fruit for CCS deployment in the UK?

Muslemani, Hasan; Cownden, Ryan; Lucquiaud, Mathieu - 2024

national power output, but also 3.5% of overall territorial GHG emissions, making its decarbonisation critical. CCS has emerged … as a promising decarbonisation solution. As waste is composed of fossil and biogenic content, retrofitting EfW with CCS … CCS in the UK EfW sector and assesses the technical feasibility of installing carbon capture technology at the facility …

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Inter-temporal R&D and capital investment portfolios for the electricity industry's low carbon future

Santen, Nidhi R.; Webster, Mort D.; Popp, David; … - 2014

This paper explores cost-effective low-carbon R&D and capital investment portfolios for the electricity generation sector through 2060. We present a novel method for long-term planning by combining an economic model of endogenous non-linear technical change and a generation capacity planning...

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Strategic conflicts on the horizon : R&D incentives for environmental technologies

Heyen, Daniel - 2015

Technological innovation is a key strategy for tackling environmental problems. The required R&D expenditures however are substantial and fall on self-interested countries. Thus, the prospects of successful innovation critically depend on innovation incentives. This paper focuses on a specific...

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Chapter 21. Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Popp, David; Newell, Richard G.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2010

Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...

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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...

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