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Coupling GEMINI-E3 and MARKAL-CHRES to Simulate Swiss Climate Policies
Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, André Sceia
2008
Report or working paper
2008
Report or working paper
Abstract
This report collects two studies hat have been performed in the Research group on the Economics and Management of the Environment of EPFL to assess the Swiss post-Kyoto climate policy with a focus on the residential sector. We couple two existing top-down and residential bottom-up models in order to carry out a integrated assessment of various post-2012 climate policies for Switzerland.
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