A survey of the economic impact of climate change and the marginal damage costs shows that carbon dioxide emissions are a negative externality. The estimated Pigou tax and its growth rate are too low to justify the climate policy targets set by political leaders. A lower discount rate or greater concern for the global...
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Billets marqués ‘ climate change ’
Targets for global climate policy : an overview
Trade and climate change: An analytical review of key issues
The last decade has witnessed an increasing global awareness of human impact on the planet’s climate and its likely consequences. However, strategic and structural complexities hinder further compliance and participation in efforts to establish a global agreement for climate change mitigation...
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Facing the climate change challenge in a global economy
Over the past two decades, the international community has struggled to deal constructively with the problem of mitigating climate change. This is considered by many to be the preeminent public policy challenge of our time, but actual policy responses have been relatively modest. This essay provides an abbreviated narrative history of international policy in...
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The Durban platform negotiations: goals and options
This essay of Daniel Bodansky unpacks the elements of the Durban platform and analyzes the possible goals of the new round of negotiations. It then examines three possible models of how international law might address climate change...
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Global energy assessment
The GEA final report" Toward a sustainable future" was launched during the Energy Day at Rio+20...
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Challenges and solutions for climate change
The book explain how climate change and sustainable development have increasingly become interlinked and how this leads to the following five challenges
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China’s energy reform and climate policy
This working paper surveys key central government documents and articles by China's leading energy academics to investigate the ideas influencing China's new energy and climate policies
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Business and climate policy: potentials and pitfalls of private voluntary programs
Business and Climate Policy assesses the potentials and pitfalls of existing private voluntary programs. The contributors evaluate how effectively different programs meet public and private goals at the national and international levels, and across industries. The “lessons learned” presented in this book can help to design new programs and improve those in existence. Such...
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Equity and cost-effectiveness of multilateral adaptation finance – are they friends or foes ?
This CIS discussion paper analyses potential criteria to allocate international funding for adaptation to climate change, as a response to one of the main governance challenges of international adaptation funding - the prioritization of project proposals given scarce funding...
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Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe
... Challenges and opportunities for cities together with supportive national and European policies. An EEA report.
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Building international climate cooperation
This WRI's report considers lessons from the weapons and trade regimes, noting both their successes and failures. It compares these lessons to what has been tried in the climate regime, and offers ideas that might enhance the chances of attaining global action to control GHG emissions
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Buy coal! A case for supply-side environmental policy
"The traditional approach to environmental policy is to focus on the demand side: for example, pollution permits may be allocated or the consumption of fossil fuel might be taxed. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the bene ts of focusing on the supply side, including the supply from foreign countries..."
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Rules vs. Targets: Climate treaties under uncertainty
In this working paper, H. Gersbach and Q. Oberpriller demonstrate the advantages of a climate treaty based solely on rules for international permit markets when there is uncertainty about abatement costs and environmental damages.
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European climate leadership : Durban and beyond
The paper is intended to stimulate the debate on how the EU can enhance its alliance with other global climate frontrunners and address a changing world order. What steps does Europe have to take that underpin the EU’s climate leadership and ensure an ambitious future global agreement?(© Silvia Brugger)
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Expect the unexpected : Ten Situations to keep an eye on
This study outlines possible future scenarios that are deserving of special attention because the situations they could create would present great challenges to Germany and Europe
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