Climate ChangeS

The World Trade Organization and Climate Change: Challenges and Options

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jisun Kim - Controlling greenhouse gas emissions promises to be a top priority for both national and international agendas, and special attention must be given to the relationship between the WTO and the emerging international regime on climate change. This working paper...

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Social Impacts of Climate Change in Peru: a District Level Analysis of the Effects of Recent and Future Climate Change on Human Development and Inequa

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:31:00 +0000

by Lykke E. Andersen, Addy Suxo and Dorte Verner - This paper uses district level data to estimate the general relationship between climate, income and life expectancy in Peru. The analysis finds that both incomes and life expectancy show hump-shaped relationships, with optimal average annual...

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Social Impacts of Climate Change in Bolivia : a Municipal Level Analysis of the Effects of Recent Climate Change on life Expectancy, Consumption, Pove

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000

by Lykke E. Andersen and Dorte Verner - This paper analyzes the direct evidence of climate change in Bolivia during the past 60 years, and estimates how these changes have affected life expectancy and consumption levels for each of the 311 municipalities in Bolivia. The estimations indicate that...

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A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:29:00 +0000

by Elinor Ostrom - The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues that single policies adopted only at a global scale are unlikely to generate sufficient trust among citizens and firms so that collective action can take place in a comprehensive and transparent manner that...

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Achieving Urban Climate Adaptation in Europe and Central Asia

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:29:00 +0000

by JoAnn Carmin and Yan Zhang - Many cities across Europe and Central Asia are experiencing the impacts of climate change, but most have not integrated climate adaptation into their agendas. This paper examines the threats faced and measures that can be taken by cities in the region to protect...

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An International Survey on Time Discounting

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:28:00 +0000

by Mei Wang, Oliver Rieger and Thorsten Hens - We present results from an international survey on time discounting in 45 countries/regions. Consistent with the pattern predicted by the hyperbolic discounting model, most participants discount the near future more than the long-term future. The...

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Can Carbon Based Import Tariffs Effectively Reduce Carbon Emissions?

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:27:00 +0000

by Michael Hübler - We estimate CO2 implicitly contained in traded commodities based on the GTAP 7 data: While net carbon imports into the industrialized countries amount to 15% of their total emissions, net carbon exports of the developing countries amount to 12% of their total emissions, and net...

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Implications of Climate Policy in a Carbon-Intensive Region: Estimating Abatement Costs under Deep Policy Uncertainty

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:27:00 +0000

by J.P. Muller and Gregory F. Nemet - A wide variety of measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been proposed at the municipal, state, regional, federal, and international levels of governance. The impacts of these public policies on Wisconsin consumers may be quite...

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The EU 20/20/2020 Targets: An Overview of the EMF22 Assessment

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:26:00 +0000

by Christoph Böhringer, Thomas F. Rutherford and Tol, Richard S J - Three computable general equilibrium models are used to estimate the economic implications of a stylized version of EU climate policy. If implemented at the lowest possible cost, the 20% emissions reduction would lead to a welfare...

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Counting Only the Hits? The Risk of Underestimating the Costs of Stringent Climate Policy

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:26:00 +0000

by Massimo Tavoni and R.S.J. Tol - We argue that a straightforward review of integrated assessment models results produces biased estimates for the more ambitious climate objectives such as those compatible with the 2°C of the European Union and the G8. The magnitude and range of estimates are...

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Subsidising Carbon Capture. Effects on Energy Prices and Market Shares in the Power Market

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:25:00 +0000

by Finn Roar Aune, Gang Liu, Knut Einar Rosendahl and Eirik Lund Sagen - This paper examines how ambitious climate policies and subsidies to carbon capture may affect international energy prices and market shares in the power market. A detailed numerical model of the international energy markets...

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Climate Change and Damage from Extreme Weather Events

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:25:00 +0000

by Robert Repetto and Robert Easton - The risks of extreme weather events are typically being estimated, by federal agencies and others, with historical frequency data assumed to reflect future probabilities. These estimates may not yet have adequately factored in the effects of past and future...

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Technology Roadmap: Carbon Capture and Storage

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:24:00 +0000

by the International Energy Agency - This roadmap on CCS identifies, for the first time, a detailed scenario for the technology’s growth from a handful of large-scale projects today to over three thousand projects by 2050. It finds that the next decade is a key "make or break" period for CCS;...

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Carbon Leakage from the Clean Development Mechanism

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:24:00 +0000

by Knut Einar Rosendahl and Jon Strand - This paper analyzes how CDM projects may lead to leakage of emissions elsewhere in Non-Annex B countries, taking into account also potential (negative) leakage effects from less emission reductions in Annex B. Leakage occurs because emissions reductions...

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Who Owns Our Low Carbon Future? Intellectual Property and Energy Technologies

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:23:00 +0000

by Bernice Lee, Ilian Iliev and Felix Preston - This report examines two issues: patent ownership of climate-friendly technologies, and the rate of technology diffusion. A polarized debate continues between proponents of strengthening intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes to encourage...

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A Copenhagen Collar: Achieving Comparable Effort Through Carbon Price Agreements

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:20:00 +0000

by Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter J. Wilcoxen - To improve the political stability of any policy agreement emerging from this December’s annual meeting on the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, and to ensure the comparability of commitments and ease...

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Personal Carbon Trading: a Critical Examination of Proposals for the UK

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:10:00 +0000

by Gill Seyfang, Irene Lorenzoni and Michael Nye - This conceptual paper aims to critically examine personal carbon trading (PCT) by questioning the assumptions underlying this proposal and identifying the gaps in current thinking. The paper first discusses the origins and development of the PCT...

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An Inventory of Adaptation to Climate Change in the UK: Challenges and Findings

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:58:00 +0000

by E.L. Tompkins, E. Boyd, S.A. Nicholson-Cole, K.Weatherhead, N.W Arnell and W.N. Adger - While there has been an increasing investment in the ‘science of adaptation’, there has been less, if any, attention paid to the ‘practice of adaptation’, i.e. is adaptation occurring, and if so, how, where...

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The Improbable 2°C Global Warming Target

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:44:00 +0000

by Carlo Carraro and Emanuele Massetti - Mitigating global warning is a pressing and daunting task for the world’s major economies. This column says that the 2°C target set by G8 leaders is both politically and technologically unrealistic. It argues they must adopt more realistic targets and...

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Price Floors for Emissions Trading

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:39:00 +0000

by Peter John Wood and Frank Jotzo - Price floors in greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes can have advantages for technological innovation, price volatility, and management of cost uncertainty, but implementation has pitfalls. We argue that the best mechanism for implementing a price floor is...

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The European Commission and EUA Prices: A High-Frequency Analysis of the EC's Decisions on Second NAPs

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:38:00 +0000

by Waldemar Rotfuss and Christian Conrad - This paper empirically examines price formation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Our analysis shows that unexpected allocations of European Union Allowances (EUAs) lead to pronounced price reactions of the expected signs. Moreover,...

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Optimal Carbon Capture and Storage Policies

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:37:00 +0000

by Alain Ayong Le Kama, Mouez Fodhay and Gilles Lafforguez - We develop a very simple growth model so as to obtain analytical and tractable results and therefore exhibit the main driving forces that should determine the optimal CSS policy. We show within this stylized framework that, under some...

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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:36:00 +0000

by Shurojit Chatterji, Sayantan Ghosal, Sean Walsh and John Whalley - We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate...

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:36:00 +0000

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn and David Hemous - This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors...

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Agricultural Land Tenure and Carbon Offsets

noreply@blogger.com (Emanuele) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:35:00 +0000

by Roger Claassen and Mitch Morehart - If agricultural producers are allowed to participate in a national cap-and-trade system to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the opportunity to sell carbon offsets could prompt farmers to manage their land in a way that increases the amount of carbon...

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