This report synthesizes the results of studies conducted under an ADB technical assistance on the Regional Economics of Climate Change in South Asia Phase 1 (RECCSA 1) in five countries - Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka...
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Tags : climate change, Mitigation, South Asia
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The scenario pathways presented in this paper describe transformative changes toward these goals, taking a broad view of the four main energy challenges faced by society in the 21st century: providing universal access to modern energy for all; reducing the impacts of energy production on human health and the environment; avoiding dangerous climate change;...
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Tags : air pollution, climate change, energy access, energy security, Integrated Assessment, Mitigation
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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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Tags : carbon market, China, climate change, Climate Policy, energy efficiency, energy policy, environment, Mitigation, Pollution, reform, renewable energy
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This FEEM paper demonstrates that determining a workable range of the social costs of carbon is however possible in a sequential decision-making framework that permits revising initial decisions in the light of new information
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Tags : Mitigation, Optimal Control, Social Cost of Carbon, uncertainty
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This working paper gives an overview of current country positions, discusses pros and cons of different accounting and governance frameworks for NMMs, and examines inasmuch the CDM provides a suitable model for centrally governed secortal crediting mechanisms.
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Tags : Carbon markets, climate change, Financial instruments, Market-Based mechanisms, Mitigation, negotiations, post-2012 climate regime, unfccc
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This FEEm working paper analyses the optimal mix of adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long-term stabilisation target
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Tags : Adaptation, Climate Change Impacts, Integrated Assessment Model, Mitigation
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Compilation of information on nationally appropriate mitigation actions to be implemented by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention
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Tags : climate change, Developing Countries, Mitigation, NAMA's
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... identification des potentiels déséquilibres systémiques et des stratégies favorisant la résilience, par Hector G. Lopez-Ruiz
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Tags : Adaptation, couplage, facteur 4, gaz à effet de serre, Mitigation, modélisation, multimodalité, resilience, scenario
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"Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation policies..."
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Tags : Adaptation, climate change, Mitigation, risk-taking
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Bosello, F. and C. Chen (2010). Adapting and Mitigating to Climate Change: Balancing the Choice under Uncertainty. FEEM Note di lavoro No. 2010.159, Dec 2010.
This paper enriches the rapidly expanding literature trying to devise normative indications on the optimal combination of the two introducing the role of catastrophic and spatial uncertainty related to...
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Tags : Adaptation, climate change, Mitigation, model
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Eskeland, G.S. and Mideksa, T.K. (2010) Electricity demand in a changing climate. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 15(8): 877-897.
We study the relationship between European electricity consumption and outdoor temperature and other variables, using a panel data set of 31 countries...
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Tags : Adaptation, climate change, Elasticities, Electricity demand, Europe, Mitigation
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