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A Copenhagen Prognosis: Towards a Safe Climate Future
This report examines the current state of climate change, offers guidance for the future and a path forward, and finally takes into account the need for climate protection for human development in the third world.
Excerpted from the Key Messages section: "Achieving the necessary 'Great Transformation' to give humanity a reasonable chance t ...
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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
A Taxonomy of Instruments to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and their Interactions
From the abstract: "This paper reviews alternative (national and international) climate change mitigation policy instruments and interactions across them. Carbon taxes, cap-and-trade schemes, standards and technology-support policies (R&D and clean technology deployment) in particular are assessed according to three broad cost-effectiveness criteri ...
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Romain Duval
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Economics Department Working Paper No. 636, September 2008
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For the Public
CEO Climate Policy Recommendations to G8 Leaders
This set of recommendations (developed by a group of global business leaders from diverse sectors and regions) was created for G8 leaders to consider at their annual summit in Japan. Each is then followed by an in-depth discussion. Excerpted from the report:
Climate change is a serious challenge for the international community,
inclu ...
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World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2008
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate and Trade Policies in a Post 2012 World
This is a collection of articles by leading experts on the relationship between trade and climate change policies. It examines the future interplay between climate, trade policies, and institutions. The collection consists of articles that focus on "international, regional and national policies and institutions relevant to the implementation of ...
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United Nations Environment Programme Economics and Trade Branch and the ADAM Project
United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, Switzerland, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate Capitalism
From the Cambridge University Press Website: "Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of
‘decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on
carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a
transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex
politics of this process. Given the domi ...
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Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, May 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate Change and Game Theory
This paper uses game theory to analyze cooperation issues in global climate change agreements and the behavior of major climate policy actors such as the U.S.
Abstract:
"This survey paper examines the problem of achieving global cooperation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Contributions to this problem are reviewed from n ...
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Peter John Wood
Environmental Economics Research Hub Research Reports, Canberra: May 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate Change and the Economics of Targeted Mitigation in Sectors
From the Abstract: “Mitigation investments in long-lived capital stock (LLKS) differ from other types of mitigation investments in that, once established, LLKS can lock-in a stream of emissions for extended periods of time. Moreover, historical examples from industrial countries suggest that investments in LLKS projects or networks tend to
be lum ...
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Zmarak Shalizi and Franck Lecocq
Washington, DC: The World Bank.;Background Paper to the 2010 World Development Report, September 2009.
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists
Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development
In this book, a leading group of 35 policy experts and scholars show how effective mitigation of climate change will depend on a complex mix of public funds, private investment though carbon markets, and structured incentives that leave room for developing country innovations. This requires sophisticated national and global regulation of cap-and-tr ...
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Richard Stewart, Benedict Kingsbury and Bryce Rudyk (eds.)
NYU Press, New York, NY, December 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness:Ten Insights from Europe on the EU Emissions Trading S...
From the Executive Summary: "The U.S. Congress is in the midst of a debate on regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The Waxman-Markey bill was passed by the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009, and the Senate is likely to probe even more extensively the appropriate design and implications of a system to regulate emissions. Europe has accumu ...
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Michael Grubb, Thomas L. Brewer, Misato Sato, Robert Heilmayr, and Dora Fazekas
The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington D.C., July 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US Only,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Consumption, Happiness, and Climate Change
This paper explores the implications of the growing literature on "happiness" for understanding the relationship between climate change policies and consumption. The authors identify a number of ways in which accounting for the implications of that literature could lead to laws and policies that influence consumption in ways that increase the pros ...
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Cohen, Mark A., and Michael P. Vandenbergh
Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. Discussion Paper 08-39: October 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Cost-optimized Climate Stabilisation
From the Abstract: "This study analyses the implications of suggestions for the design of post-2012 climate policy regimes on the basis of model simulations. The focus of the analysis, the determination of regional mitigation costs and the technological development in the energy sector, also considers the feedbacks of investment and trade decisi ...
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Marian Leimbach, Nico Bauer, Lavinia Baumstark, Ottmar Edenhofer
Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Germany, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Defining Fossil-Fuel Subsidies for the G-20: Which Approach is Best?
Excerpted from the Policy Brief: "In September 2009, leaders of the Group of Twenty (G-20) largest industrialized and developing economies made a groundbreaking commitment to reform their fossil-fuel subsidies, in a bid to advance their energy security and climate change agendas (G-20 Leaders, 2009). In doing so, leaders called
upon their finan ...
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Global Subsidies Initiative
Innternational Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada, March 2010
Objectives: Policies & LegislationFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Economic Impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies: The German Experience
From the Abstract:
"The allure of an environmentally benign, abundant, and cost-eff ective energy source
has led an increasing number of industrialized countries to back public financing of
renewable energies. Germany’s experience with renewable energy promotion is often
cited as a model to be replicated elsewhere, being based on a combination ...
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Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, Christoph M. Schmidt, and Colin Vance
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics Universitätsstr. Bochum, Germany, November 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member States
Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy
From the MIT Press Website:
"The United States, once a world leader in
addressing international environmental challenges, became a vigorous
opponent of action on climate change over the past two decades,
repudiating regulation and promoting only ineffectual voluntary actions
to meet a growing global threat. Why has the United States ...
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David M. Driesen (Ed.)
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists
Efficient Emissions Reduction
This paper proposes an international emissions reduction mechanism that uses competition between different nations.
Abstract:
"We propose a simple mechanism capable of achieving international agreement on averting the threat of global warming. It employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to exert both ...
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Béatrice Roussillon and Paul Schweinzer
The University of Manchester, Economics Discussion Paper Series 1004, Manchester: March 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
Energy Efficiency Economics and Policy
Abstract: Energy efficiency and conservation are considered key means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving other energy policy goals, but associated market behavior and policy responses have engendered debates in the economic literature. We review economic concepts underlying consumer decisionmaking in energy efficiency and conservat ...
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Kenneth Gillingham, Richard G. Newell and Karen L. Palmer
Resources for the Future Discussion Paper No. 09-03, April 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists
Energy Efficiency Policies Around the World: Review and Evaluation
The purpose of this study is to describe and evaluate energy efficiency trends and policies worldwide. The study involved 70 countries over three years.
The first objective was to identify current trends in energy efficiency performance in particular countries and regions at both the macro and regional levels. A selection of indicators is ...
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World Energy Council's Programme Committee
World Energy Council, London, UK, 2008
Objectives: 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
Energy Efficiency Program Options for Local Governments under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinves...
From the Abstract:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(ARRA) included several key funding opportunities for energy efficiency
projects at the local level, including for the first time monies for
the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program.(1)
Funding was additionally provided for state energy pr ...
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Environmental Taxes
This paper provides an overview of key economic issues in the use of taxation as an instrument of environmental policy in the UK. It first reviews economic arguments for using taxes and other market mechanisms in environmental policy, discusses the choice of tax base, and considers the value of the revenue from environmental taxes. It is argued tha ...
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Fullerton, Don, Andrew Leicester Stephen Smith
Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper 14197: July 2008
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating ProposalsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Feed-in Tariff for Renewable Energies: An Effective Stimulus Package without New Public Borrowing
"This brochure describes the basic principles of the Renewable Energy Sources Act
and seeks, above all, to place them in the context of the policy debates that have
been taking place. It is demonstrated that many of the arguments often used against
feed-in tariff do not hold water. Above all, the economic arguments rooted in free
market theory ...
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Hans-Josef Fell
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
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