In December 2015 Parties adopted the Paris Agreement at the 21st session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In its Article 2 governments agreed to limit global warming to “well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and to pursue to limit it to 1.5°C...

Die Verhandlungen zu einem globalen Klimaabkommen welches 2015 in Paris beschlossen werden soll, und unter dem sich ab 2020 alle Länder zu Emissionsreduktionen verpflichten, stellt die Staaten-gemeinschaft unter der Klimarahmenkonvention vor große Herausforderungen. Unterschiedlichste...

This paper describes a model, implemented in an Excel spreadsheet, for evaluating a wide range of fiscal and regulatory instruments policymakers might consider for implementing their Paris mitigation pledges. Policies are evaluated against a range of metrics, including impacts on carbon dioxide...