Search Results - subject:"INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT"

Spatially explicit bio-economic modelling for the Baltic Sea: Do the benefits of nutrient abatement outweigh the costs?

Hyytiainen, Kari; Ahlvik, Lassi; Ahtiainen, Heini; … - MTT Taloustutkimus (MTTL), Government of Finland - 2013

This paper develops and applies a spatially explicit bioeconomic model to study trans-boundary nutrient pollution of the Baltic Sea. We combine catchment, marine and economic models covering the entire Baltic Sea region to weigh the costs of nutrient abatement and the benefits of improved water...

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Climate policies: a burden or a gain?

BRECHET, Thierry; TULKENS, Henry - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alernative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are, and in addition, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the...

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Abandoning Fossil Fuel: How fast and how much?

Ploeg, Rick Van der; Rezai, Armon - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

Climate change must deal with two market failures, global warming and learning by doing in renewable use. The social optimum requires an aggressive renewables subsidy in the near term and a gradually rising carbon tax which falls in long run. As a result, more renewables are used relative to...

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A Simple Formula for the Social Cost of Carbon

Bijgaart, Inge van den; Gerlagh, Reyer; Korsten, Luuk; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

unit of CO2 to the atmosphere. The SCC is typically obtained from large-scale computational Integrated Assessment Models …

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Evaluating the Global Role of Woody Biomass as a Mitigation Strategy

Favero, Alice; Mendelsohn, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

As policy makers consider stringent targets for greenhouse gas emissions, integrated assessment models are increasingly … and across the planet. The integrated assessment models simply do not have enough detail about global forests and arable … the market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM …

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Long-term Transport Energy Demand and Climate Policy: Alternative Visions on Transport Decarbonization in Energy Economy Models

Pietzcker, Robert; Longden, Thomas; Chen, Wenying; Fu, Sha - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Transportation accounts for a substantial share of CO2 emissions, and decarbonizing transport will be necessary to limit global warming to below 2°C. Due to persistent reliance on fossil fuels, it is posited that transport is more difficult to decarbonize than other sectors. We test this...

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The Role of the Forest in an Integrated Assessment Model of the Climate and the Economy

Eriksson, Mathilda - CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics - 2013

This paper develops a model to evaluate then potential role of the global forest as an option to reduce climate change. The approach is to assess the forest as both a source of renewable energy and a potential storage of carbon together with non-carbon energy. The analysis shows that the global...

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Ecosystem damages in integrated assessment models of climate change

Brooks, Wesley R.; Newbold, Stephen C. - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2013

. Based on these estimates, we re-calibrate the biodiversity loss function in the FUND integrated assessment model, and we … FUND, or as a preliminary ecosystem damage function in a new integrated assessment model. We also highlight areas where …The impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems are among the key reasons for concern about climate change. Integrated …

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An Integrated Assessment of Super & Smart Grids

Ricci, Elena Claire - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We assess the optimality of investments in power grid innovation, under both technological options of Super and Smart Grids, using the WITCH model in the version that includes Super-Grids. Super Grids allow producing and trading of electricity generated by large scale concentrated solar power...

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Climate Policies: A Burden or a Gain?

Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - CESifo - 2013

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...

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