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Do Abatement Quotas Lead to More Successful Climate Coaliltions?

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This paper studies the effect of different treaty designs on the success of international environmental agreements (IEAs). We analyze the standard assumption of an efficient abatement scheme and three uniform abatement quota schemes. Apart from analytical ...

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The influence of firms on climate policy

This paper presents a new research project of EPFL REME that aims to assess the influence of firms on climate policy. Firms do not form a solid block of opponents to climate policy regulation. As they face different incentives towards climate policy their ...

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The influence of firms on climate policy

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Cost Savings of a Multi-Gas Climate Policy

Philippe Thalmann, André Sceia

This short note completes the work done in the paper "Evaluation of a Swiss carbon tax with the computable general equilibrium model GEMINI-E3" and analyzes for Switzerland the benefits of a multi-gas greenhouse ga abatement strategy. ...

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The climate dollar

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle

In this technical report we describe a scenario designed by the "Office fédérale de l’environnement" (Mr Romero), this scenario is detailed in table 1. In this scenario we assume that a carbon tax 1 USD2001 per ton of CO2 (i.e. 3.66 USD per ton of carbon) ...

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Modeling endogenous learning and imperfect competition effects in climate change economics

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In this two-part paper we evaluate the effect of “endogenizing” technological learning and strategic behavior of agents in economic models used to assess climate change policies. In the first part we show the potential impact of R&D policies or demonstrati ...

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Assessment of climate change impacts on Alpine discharge regimes with climate model uncertainty

André Musy, Bettina Schaefli, Abdelkader Mezghani

The present study analyzes the uncertainty induced by the use of different state-of-the-art climate models on the prediction of climate change impacts on the runoff regimes of 11 mountainous catchments in the Swiss Alps having current glaciation rates betw ...

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Permit Trading and Stability of Climate Agreements

Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

We analyze the implication of different allocation schemes of CO2-emission permits for stability and the success of international climate agreements. Our model combines a game theoretical with an empirical module that comprises 12 world regions and capture ...

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Choc pétrolier et changement climatique (Sharp increase in petrol prices and climate change)

Marc Vielle

Le renchérissement actuel du prix des énergies peut être perçu comme une bonne nouvelle pour le changement climatique en permettant de réduire nos consommations d'énergie et ainsi nos émissions de CO[2]. Cette étude utilise le modèle GEMINI-E3 pour analyse ...

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The Impact of Surplus Sharing on the Stability of International Climate Agreements

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This paper analyses stability of coalitions for greenhouse gas abatement under different sharing rules applied to the gains from cooperation. We use a 12-region model to examine internal and external stability of coalitions. We determine and compare stable ...

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