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Establishing and Understanding Post-2020 Climate Change Mitigation Commitments
Briner, Gregory; Prag, Andrew - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013
adopted by 2015 and come into effect from 2020. An effective agreement would include quantitative mitigation commitments from …-term transformations to low-carbon and climate-resilient economies. The aim of this paper is to explore what mitigation commitments put … whether guidance could take the form of “bounded flexibility” for the various dimensions describing mitigation commitments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276734
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of … mitigation and green growth in Asia’s major emerging economies. Although recent targets and commitments will involve a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277994
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of … mitigation and green growth in Asia’s major emerging economies. Although recent targets and commitments will involve a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278179
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of … mitigation and green growth in Asia’s major emerging economies. Although recent targets and commitments will involve a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278234
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The emission reduction effect and economic impact of an energy tax vs. a carbon tax in China : a dynamic CGE model analysis
Zou, Lele; Xue, Jinjun; Fox, Alan; Meng, Bo; Shibata, … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Chinese government commits to reach its peak carbon emissions before 2030, which requires China to implement new policies. Using a CGE model, this study conducts simulation studies on the functions of an energy tax and a carbon tax and analyzes their effects on macro-economic indices. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268113
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Cities and Green Growth: The Case of the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area
Public Governance and Territorial Development …; … - 2013
This working paper assesses opportunities and policies for green growth in the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area. It first examines the Chicago metro-region's economic and environmental performance and potential constraints to regional growth, and identifies emerging regional specialisations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277081
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Urbanisation and Green Growth in China
Public Governance and Territorial Development …; … - 2013
This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities. It applies the OECD conceptual framework for urban green growth to examine the potential challenges and opportunities for increasing economic growth through reducing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277087
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Probabilistic Stabilization Targets
Fitzpatrick, Luke G.; Kelly, David L. - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2015
We study stabilization targets: common environmental policy recommendations that specify a maximum probability of an environmental variable exceeding a fixed target (e.g. limit climate change to at most 2°C above preindustrial). Previous work generally considers stabilization targets under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166144
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Discounting, Distribution and Disaggregation
Yamaguchi, Rintaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of the rich and the poor, a standard setting in the literature of cost-benefit analysis with distributional considerations. We derive several discount rates for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260941
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Abatement, R&D and growth with a pollution ceiling
Kollenbach, Gilbert - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 54 (2015) C, pp. 1-16
The consequences of the 2°C climate target and the implicitly imposed ceiling on CO2 have been analyzed in several studies. We use an endogenous growth model with a ceiling and an abatement option to study the effect of the ceiling on the allocation of limited funds for R&D, abatement and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264281