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Regional IAM: analysis of risk-adjusted costs and benefits of climate policies
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-02)
Across the full range of publications in the field of economics of climate change there is perhaps only one firm agreement: both costs and benefits of climate policy are highly uncertain. In an ideal world one would wait ...
Economic Efficiency, Environmental Effectiveness and Political Feasibility of Energy Efficiency Rebates: The Case of the Spanish Energy Efficiency 'Renove' Plan
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-02)
Energy labels are used to promote the purchase of efficient appliances. Many countries in Europe use subsidies (namely energy efficiency rebates) to support these purchases as it is the case of Spain. A figure ranging from ...
Time and tide wait for no man: pioneers and laggards in the deployment of CCS
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-09-25)
In Europe the ambitions of individual countries to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are diverse. Reasons for this are, amongst other things, the heterogeneity of national electricity generation systems ...
The Green Paradox and Learning-by-doing in the Renewable Energy Sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-04-04)
We investigate the effect of climate policies on fossil fuel use in the presence of a clean alternative technology that exhibits learning-by-doing. In a two-period framework, the costs of clean and regenerative energy in ...
The Demand for Environmental Quality in Driving Transitions to Low Polluting Energy Sources
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-11-15)
The purpose of this paper is to understand the long run demand for energy-related environmental quality, its influence on legislation and on transitions to low polluting energy sources. It starts by presenting a simple ...
International Support of Climate Change Policies in Developing Countries: Strategic, Moral and Fairness Aspects
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-02-01)
International transfers in climate policy channeled from the industrialized to the developing world either support the mitigation of climate change or the adaptation to global warming. From an allocative efficiency point ...
The Uniform World Model: A Methodology for Predicting the Health Impacts of Air Pollution
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-12-12)
Throughout history, technological development and economic growth has led to greater prosperity and overall standard of living for many people in society. However, along with the benefits of economic development comes the ...
Low Climate Stabilisation under Diverse Growth and Convergence Scenarios
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-08-08)
In the last decade, a few papers have analysed the consequences of achieving the greenhouse gas concentration levels necessary to maintain global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. ...
The Long Run Demand for Lighting: Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-26)
The provision of artificial light was revolutionised by a series of discontinuous innovations in lighting appliances, fuels, infrastructures and institutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Britain, the ...
Households WTP for the Reliability of Gas Supply
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-07)
The security of natural gas supply is an important issue for all EU countries due to the region’s heavy dependence on imported supply sources and in light of energy demand for gas that is continuously increasing. Discussions ...