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A Tale of Two Countries : Emissions Scenarios for China and India

Massetti, Emanuele - 2011

The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in international negotiations to control global warming. We base our conclusions on historical data and on scenarios until 2050. The Business-as-Usual scenario (BaU) is compared to...

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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation : An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy

Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - 2013

The latest round of international negotiations in Copenhagen led to a set of commitments on emission reductions which are unlikely to stabilise global warming below or around 2°C. As a consequence, in the absence of additional ambitious policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address...

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Should We Ban Unconventional Oil Extraction to Reduce Global Warming?

Carrara, Samuel - 2014

impacts than the extraction of conventional oil. The European Union (EU) estimates that oil sands lead to 22% more emissions … than conventional oil. The EU is very concerned by the potential climate and environmental impacts and has considered … unilateral ban of the EU on unconventional oil has no climate benefits and it is expensive for Europe …

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Energy and Climate Change in China

Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele - 2014

The paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China, presenting historical data and scenarios generated using the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH. A Business-as-Usual scenario is compared with four scenarios in which Greenhouse Gases emissions are taxed, at different levels. Key...

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Adaptation, Mitigation and 'Green' R&D to Combat Global Climate Change. Insights from an Empirical Integrated Assessment Exercise

Bosello, Francesco - 2015

This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatement is enriched with a planned-adaptation module where a defensive...

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A Numerical Analysis of Optimal Extraction and Trade of Oil Under Climate Policy

Massetti, Emanuele; Sferra, Fabio - 2013

We introduce endogenous investments for increasing conventional and non-conventional oil extraction capacity in the integrated assessment model WITCH. The international price of oil emerges as the Nash equilibrium of a non-cooperative game. When carbon emissions are not constrained, oil is used...

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Investments and Financial Flows Induced by Climate Mitigation Policies

Bastianin, Andrea; Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2013

In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...

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A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture

Van Passel, Steven; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, … - 2014

This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...

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Economy-wide estimates of the implications of climate change : human health

Bosello, Francesco; Roson, Roberto; Tol, Richard S. J. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 58 (2006) 3, pp. 579-591

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The Incentives to Participate in, and the Stability of, International Climate Coalitions : A Game-Theoretic Analysis Using the Witch Model

Bosetti, Valentina - 2012

This paper uses WITCH, an integrated assessment model with a game-theoretic structure, to explore the prospects for, and the stability of broad coalitions to achieve ambitious climate change mitigation action. Only coalitions including all large emitting regions are found to be technically able...

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