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Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

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The vulnerability of Switzerland towards climate change : the case of tourism

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Tourism is one of the main sources of income in many Swiss Alpine regions. But this industry is highly sensitive to climate conditions. Then, tourism in the Alpine region is effectively affected (both positively and negatively) by climate change and people ...

2010

Climate Change and Tourism in Switzerland: a Survey on Impacts, Vulnerability and Possible Adaptation Measures

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

The tourism industry is particularly affected by climate change, being very climate- and weather- dependent. Moreover, particularly in the Alpine region, it is specially exposed to natural hazards. Nonetheless, this industry is an important pillar of the S ...

NCCR Climate - Swiss Climate Research2010

Transfer Design and Incentives for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Developing Countries

Philippe Thalmann, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, Ronal Gainza Carmenates

Transfers would play a key role in the implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in developing countries. In this paper, we analyze the desirable features of such transfers - i.e., individually rational, budget-balanced, anti-ince ...

Climate Economics at the NCCR Climate2010

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We analyze the implications of a global carbon tax on CO2 to finance the damage and adaptation costs of developing countries (DCs) using the computable general equilibrium model GEMINI-E3. We considered two options, first, that the tax is only applied to i ...

NCCR Climate2010

Trade-offs and performances of a range of alternative global climate architectures for post-2012

Philippe Thalmann, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, Ronal Gainza Carmenates

Quantitative assessments help to highlight the main features of climate policies by better identifying their strengths and weaknesses. In this study, we develop a grading system for assessing thirteen proposals for post-2012 climate policy. We believe that ...

Elsevier2010

We analyze carbon-related BAMs (focused on imports) as potential instruments to reduce emissions leakage. We combine an approach from international trade law with an economic approach. For the legal aspect we discuss the elements needed to include carbon-r ...

NCCR-Climate Working Paper2010

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In the framework of the revision of the Swiss CO2-Law and in view for the international negotiations that will take place at the next Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Federal Office for the Environ ...

2009

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NCCR-Climate2009

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We performed a study to define the key elements of feasible global climate policy scenarios for the post-2012 UNFCCC regime by contacting – through a series of questionnaires – 149 stakeholders involved in climate-change discussions. We applied a Multiple ...

2009

We study the effect of strategic voting on the success and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs). We assume that voters elect the government that negotiates an IEA in a framework of two asymmetric countries without transfers. We find t ...

2008