Targets for global climate policy: An overview

RSJ Tol - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013 - Elsevier
A survey of the economic impact of climate change and the marginal damage costs shows
that carbon dioxide emissions are a negative externality. The estimated Pigou tax and its …

The transition to endogenous technical change in climate-economy models: a technical overview to the innovation modeling comparison project

J Kohler, M Grubb, D Popp, O Edenhofer - The Energy Journal, 2006 - iaee.org
This paper assesses endogenous technical change (ETC) in climate-economy models,
using the models in the Innovation Modeling Comparison Project (IMCP) as a representative …

Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions: A meta-analysis

O Kuik, L Brander, RSJ Tol - Energy policy, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, we carry out a meta-analysis of recent studies into the costs of greenhouse gas
mitigation policies that aim at the long-term stabilisation of these gases in the atmosphere …

Improving the evidence base for energy policy: The role of systematic reviews

S Sorrell - Energy policy, 2007 - Elsevier
The concept of evidence-based policy and practice (EBPP) has gained increasing
prominence in the UK over the last 10 years and now plays a dominant role in a number of …

Tools for integrated sustainability assessment: a two-track approach

J Rotmans - Integrated Assessment Journal, 2006 - journals.lib.sfu.ca
Sustainable development has become an overarching policy target for the global policy
arena. However, the international policy-making process and that of the individual countries …

Closing the gap? Top-down versus bottom-up projections of China's regional energy use and CO2 emissions

H Dai, P Mischke, X Xie, Y Xie, T Masui - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
As the world's largest CO 2 emitter, China is a prominent case study for scenario analysis.
This study uses two newly developed global top-down and bottom-up models with a …

Learning curves for energy technology: a critical assessment

T Jamasb, J Kohler - 2007 - repository.cam.ac.uk
In this paper, which forms a chapter in the forthcoming Book â Delivering a Low Carbon
Electricity System: Technologies, Economics and Policyâ, Jamasb and Kohler revisit the …

Building SSPs for climate policy analysis: a scenario elicitation methodology to map the space of possible future challenges to mitigation and adaptation

J Rozenberg, C Guivarch, R Lempert, S Hallegatte - Climatic change, 2014 - Springer
The scientific community is now developing a new set of scenarios, referred to as Shared
Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) that will be contrasted along two axes: challenges to …

A cost–benefit analysis of the EU 20/20/2020 package

RSJ Tol - Energy Policy, 2012 - Elsevier
The European Commission did not publish a cost–benefit analysis for its 2020 climate
package. This paper fills that gap, comparing the marginal costs and benefits of greenhouse …

On the economic foundations of green growth discourses: the case of climate change mitigation and macroeconomic dynamics in economic modeling

S Scrieciu, A Rezai, R Mechler - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
'Greening'economic growth discourses are increasingly replacing the catchword of
'sustainable development'within national and international policy circles. The core of the …