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Hands-on Energy Adaptatioin Toolkit
"The toolkit was successful in
raising awareness among key stakeholders and initiating dialogue on energy
sector adaptation. HEAT uses a bottom-up, stakeholder-based,
qualitative/semi-quantitative risk-assessment approach to discuss and identify
risks, adaptation measures, and their costs and benefits. HEAT’s climate
vulnerability asses ...
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The World Bank
The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., USA, December 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists
Harnessing International Institutions to Address Climate Change
This paper underscores the need to understand the institutional capacity of, not only the UNFCCC, but other multilateral institutions as well, to deal with the various agendas, and sometimes conflicting goals, of the many international participants. Very few of the players in this field continue to believe that the UNFCCC, either in its current ...
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Katherine Michonski and Michael A. Levi
Council on Foreign Relations, International Institutions and Global Governance, Washington D.C., USA, March 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Heterogeneous Harm vs. Spatial Spillovers: Environmental Federalism and US Air Pollution
This paper models local vs. nationally uniform air pollution policies in the U.S.Abstract:"The economics of environmental federalism identifies two book-end departures from the first-best, which equates marginal costs and benefits in all local jurisdictions. Local governments may respond to local conditions, but ignore inter-jurisdictional spillove ...
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H. Spencer Banzhaf and B. Andrew Chupp
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA: January 2010.
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
High Impact, Low Probability? An Empirical Analysis of Risk in the Economics of Climate Change
From the Abstract: "To what extent does economic analysis of climate change depend on low-probability, high-impact events? This question has received a great deal of attention lately, with the contention increasingly made that climate damage could be so large that societal willingness to pay to avoid extreme outcomes should overwhelm other seemingl ...
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Simon Dietz
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London, UK, July 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Homes For a Changing Climate
This book "celebrates this collective wisdom, exploring traditional and contemporary responses to the challenges of climate and illustrating the many ways in which houses can be designed, built and adapted to cope with these challenges. Examples are drawn from across Europe from the dry volcano of Thera to the 100mph winds of the Western Isles and ...
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Will Anderson
Green Books, Devon, UK, January 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse the G8: Climate Change and Free-market Environmentalism
"This briefing examines the relationship between free-market economic forces and climate change policy while scrutinising the rhetoric and reality behind promises on climate made by the most powerful politicians in the world – the G8. It also explores the origins of free-market environmentalism and analyses the conflicts and synergies that arise wh ...
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Kevin Smith, et al
The Transnational Institute: june, 2005
Objectives: Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations
Hopes for Copenhagen - A Norton Rose Group survey
From the Introduction: "Over the past two years, the 2009 United Nations Climate Change
Conference that will take place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December,
(COP15), has been hailed as one of the most significant global events
for a generation. With the first commitment period of the Kyoto
Protocol set to expire in 2012, senior politicians f ...
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Norton Rose Group, 2009
Objectives: Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Household Energy Expenditure and Income Groups: Evidence from Great Britain
This paper analyzes UK household data to determine relationships between households' income levels and energy expenditures.Abstract:"Household energy use is increasingly important in the context of fuel poverty and the equity debate as well as in relation to energy saving and efficiency policies. We first explore the link between household energy s ...
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Tooraj Jamasb and Helena Meier
University of Cambridge, Electricity Policy Research Group Working Paper 1003, Cambridge: February 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
How Business Can Influence Climate Policy
Businesses can influence government action on climate in many ways—as long as they start by building their own environmental credibility.
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Auden Schendler
Scientific American, Special Edition: Earth 3.0, March 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
How China and the US Will Set the Global Climate Agenda
This is the transcript of an interview between Ken Lieberthal of the Brookings Institute and Tom Kiely, a member of the editorial board of McKinsey’s publishing group, in preparation for the Copenhagen meetings in December, where nearly 200 nations will gather to negotiate a possible global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
With China ...
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Ken Liebenthal
McKinsey Quarterly, August 2009.
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
How Close Are We to the Two Degree Limit?
One critical outcome of the Copenhagen Accord of December 2009, was the declaration that in order to hold the increase in overall global temperature below 2 degreed C, deep cuts in emissions would be required on a global scale.
Now the question becomes: Will the commitments made and actions taken actually place the world on that pathway? ...
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Chief Scientists Office, United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme, February 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
How Curbing Global Warming Emissions Can Improve Local Public Health
This paper was prepared for the New York City Global Partners Summit on “Public Health and Climate Change: The Urban Policy Connection” that was held on June 26, 2008…
It assembles existing research and adds new data analyses that show that global climate change mitigation strategies also have direct local public health benefits. Based on t ...
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Mayor's Office, New York City
Mayor’s Offi ce of Operations Offi ce of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability: June 26, 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
How difficult is it to recover from dangerous levels of global warming?
"Climate models provide compelling evidence that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at present rates, then key global temperature thresholds (such as the European Union limit of two degrees of warming since pre-industrial times) are very likely to be crossed in the next few decades. However, there is relatively little attention paid to whether, ...
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J A Lowe, C Huntingford, S C B Raper, C D Jones, S K Liddicoat and L K Gohar
2009 Environmental Research Letters
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Specialized Analysts
How Harmful are Adaptation Restrictions
There are several reasons to believe that climate change adaptation procedures may not be optimal. The authors find that “substantial over-investment in adaptation can be very harmful due to sharply increasing marginal adaptation costs.” More stringent mitigation policies may be a viable alternative.
Despite the widespread assumption in ...
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Kelly C. deBruin and Rob B. Dellink
Milan, IT: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei: 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
How Should the Distant Future be Discounted When Discount Rates are Uncertain?
From the Abstract: "It is not immediately clear how to discount distant-future events, like climate change, when the distant-future discount rate itself is uncertain. The so-called “Weitzman-Gollier puzzle” is the fact that two seemingly symmetric and equally plausible ways of dealing with uncertain future discount rates appear to give diametrical ...
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Christian Gollier and Martin L. Weitzman
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, US, November 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Evaluating ProgramsFor Economists
How the world should invest in energy efficiency
This brief paper argues that a program that targets cost-effective opportunities in energy productivity could halve the growth in energy demand, cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and generate attractive returns. Authors claim that $170 Billion a year invested across the globe in efforts to boost energy efficiency from now until 2020 could halve th ...
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Farrell, Diana, and Jaana K. Remes
The McKinsey Quarterly: July 2008
Objectives: Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor the Public
How Time Preferences Differ: Evidence from 45 Countries
From the Abstract: "We present
results from the first large-scale international survey on time discounting,
conducted in 45 countries. Cross-country variation cannot simply be explained by
economic variables such as interest or ination rates. In particular, we find
strong evidence for cultural differences, as measured by the Hofstede cultu ...
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Mei Wang, Marc Oliver Rieger, and Thorsten Hens
Swiss Finance Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2009
Objectives: Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
How to Combat Climate Change? The Determinants of Joining in and Complying with the Kyoto Protocol
This paper discusses what factors influence countries' decisions to join the Kyoto Protocol.Abstract:"The outcome of the COP15 in Copenhagen failed to meet even modest expectations, still there is no alternative to international cooperation for the mitigation of climate change. Thus, it is certainly of interest to know about the determinants of the ...
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Christian Almer and Ralph Winkler
University of Berne, Department of Economics, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Berne, Switzerland: January 2010.
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
How to Design a Border Adjustment for the European Union Emissions Trading System
This paper discusses border adjustments as tools to limit climate policies' impacts on competitiveness and carbon leakage. Though focusing on the European Union, the paper can also be used by U.S. politicians concerned about entering an international climate agreement.
Summary:
"Border adjustments are currently discussed to ...
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Stéphanie Monjon, Philippe Quirion
Center for Environmental Economics and Management, Sustainable Development Series, Venice: 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
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