Mitigation and adaptation are the most important strategies in combating global climate change. It is expected that in a post Kyoto world industrialized countries have to engage in greenhouse gas abatement, and to support developing countries in adapting to climate change. Within the framework...

This paper analyses trading and banking of carbon emission rights. Within the framework of a modestly simple, integrated assessment model that brakes the world economy in just two re-gions, North and South, it can be shown: (1) There exists separability between environmental targets and the...

Within the framework of a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model this pa-per analyses the impact of trade restrictions on regional rates of return on capital, mar-ginal costs of abatement and optimal climate policy. It will be shown that regional dif-ferences both in marginal costs of...