Climate clubs: Overcoming free-riding in international climate policy

W Nordhaus - American Economic Review, 2015 - aeaweb.org
Notwithstanding great progress in scientific and economic understanding of climate change,
it has proven difficult to forge international agreements because of free-riding, as seen in the …

Estimates of the social cost of carbon: concepts and results from the DICE-2013R model and alternative approaches

W Nordhaus - Journal of the Association of Environmental …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is an important concept for understanding and
implementing climate change policies. This term represents the economic cost caused by an …

Sustainably developing global blue carbon for climate change mitigation and economic benefits through international cooperation

C Feng, G Ye, J Zeng, J Zeng, Q Jiang, L He… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Blue carbon is the carbon storage in vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, salt
marshes, and seagrass. It is gaining global attention as its role in climate change mitigation …

Self-preservation strategy for approaching global warming targets in the post-Paris Agreement era

YM Wei, R Han, C Wang, B Yu, QM Liang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A strategy that informs on countries' potential losses due to lack of climate action may
facilitate global climate governance. Here, we quantify a distribution of mitigation effort …

Economic aspects of global warming in a post-Copenhagen environment

WD Nordhaus - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The science of global warming has reached a consensus on the high likelihood of
substantial warming over the coming century. Nations have taken only limited steps to …

Towards carbon neutrality with Chinese characteristics: From an integrated perspective of economic growth-equity-environment

H Chen, S Qi, J Zhang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing climate warming, reducing carbon emissions has gradually become a
consensus around the world. However, the process of carbon emission reduction will …

China's carbon emissions and energy demand under different methods of global mitigation cooperation: Application of an extended RICE model with energy details

K Zhang, Z Yang, QM Liang, H Liao, BY Yu, YM Wei - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This study extends the classic RICE model by introducing energy factors into the economic
module and comprehensively describes different types of energy demands. Taking China as …

Making carbon taxation a generational win win

L Kotlikoff, F Kubler, A Polbin, J Sachs… - International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon taxation is mostly studied in social planner or infinitely lived‐agent models, which
obscure carbon taxation's potential to produce a generational win win. This article's large …

The stability and effectiveness of climate coalitions: A comparative analysis of multiple integrated assessment models

K Lessmann, U Kornek, V Bosetti, R Dellink… - Environmental and …, 2015 - Springer
We report results from a comparison of numerically calibrated game theoretic integrated
assessment models that explore the stability and performance of international coalitions for …

Annex III: Scenarios and modelling methods

C Guivarch, E Kriegler, J Portugal-Pereira, V Bosetti… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The use of scenarios and modelling methods are pillars in IPCC Working Group III (WGIII)
Assessment Reports. Past WGIII assessment report cycles identified knowledge gaps about …