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      Linking Reduced Deforestation and a Global Carbon Market: Impacts on Costs, Financial Flows, and Technological Innovation 

      Bosetti, Valentina; Lubowski, Ruben; Golub, Alexander; Markandya, Anil (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-07)
      Discussions of tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from ...
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      Literature Review of Integrated Impact Assessment Models of Climate Change with Emphasis on Damage Functions 

      Arigoni Ortiz, Ramon; Markandya, Anil (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-13)
      We review the literature on the impact assessment models currently used in the climate change debate. From among these we select some relevant models, highlight their important features and identify how climate change ...
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      Local air pollution and global climate change taxes: a distributional analysis 

      García-Muros, Xaquín; Burguillo, Mercedes; González-Eguino, Mikel; Romero-Jordán, Desiderio (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-02-17)
      Local air pollution and global climate change are two significant environmental problems which are interrelated. Some recent papers examine them together, but most of the relevant literature has focused either on climate ...
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      Local and Global Externalities, Environmental Policies and Growth 

      Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-25)
      The paper analyzes the implications of local and global pollution when two types of abatement activities can be undertaken. One type reduces solely local pollution (e.g., use of particulate matter filters) while the other ...
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      Long Run Demand for Energy Services: the Role of Economic and Technological Development 

      Fouquet, Roger (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
      This paper investigates how the demand for energy services has changed since the Industrial Revolution. It presents evidence on the income and price elasticities of demand for domestic heating, passenger transport and ...
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      Long Run Trends in Energy-Related External Costs 

      Fouquet, Roger (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-01-12)
      This paper considers how energy-related external costs change through time. It focuses on one of the key periods in the history of energy. After a period of declining coal prices and soaring consumption which fuelled the ...
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      Low Climate Stabilisation under Diverse Growth and Convergence Scenarios 

      Markandya, Anil; González-Eguino, Mikel; Criqui, Patrick; Mima, Silvana (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-08-08)
      In the last decade, a few papers have analysed the consequences of achieving the greenhouse gas concentration levels necessary to maintain global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. ...
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      Market Instruments and CO2 Mitigation: A General Equilibrium Analysis for Spain 

      González-Eguino, Mikel (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-13)
      Market instruments are a core element of policies to mitigate climate change. Choosing and designing the right instruments can help to minimise mitigation costs. This paper seeks to analyse various market instruments for ...
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      Modeling the Links between Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing in the Context of Climate Change: Results from an Econometric Analysis on the European Forest Ecosystems 

      Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
      The paper conducts an empirical investigation on the complex relationship between biodiversity and the values of ecosystem goods and services that are supported by biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, aiming to produce ...
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      Modelling the Effect of Climate Change on Environmental Pollution Losses from Dairy Systems in the UK 

      Prado, Agustin del; Shepherd, Anita; Wu, Lianhai; Topp, Cairistiona; Moran, Dominic; Tolkamp, Bert; Chadwick, David (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-20)
      So far, there has been strong emphasis on studying the impacts of climate change on agriculture in terms of changes in food production; however, there is increasing evidence that agricultural ecosystems (e.g. livestock) ...
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      New climate scenario framework implementation in the GCAM integrated assessment model 

      Capellán Pérez, Iñigo; González Ruiz de Eguino, Miguel; Arto Olaizola, Ignacio; Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto ORCID; Dhavala, Kishore; Patel, Pralit; Markandya, Anil (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-08-27)
      This report has various objectives: (i) to provide an overview of the climate Integrated Assessment approach; (ii) to describe the Global Climate Assessment Model (GCAM); (iii) to outline the new IPCC scenario framework ...
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      Optimal Abandonment of Coal-Fired Stations in the EU 

      Abadie, Luis María; González-Eguino, Mikel; Chamorro, Jose Manuel (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-05-26)
      Carbon-fired power plants could face some difficulties in a carbon-constrained world. The traditional advantage of coal as a cheaper fuel may decrease in the future if CO2 allowance prices start to increase. This paper ...
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      Optimal Investment in Energy Efficiency under Uncertainty 

      Abadie, Luis María; Chamorro, Jose Manuel; González-Eguino, Mikel (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-11-18)
      This paper deals with the optimal time to invest in an energy efficiency improvement. There is a broad consensus that such investments quickly pay for themselves in lower energy bills and spared emission allowances. However, ...
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      Payments for Water Ecosystem Services in Latin America: Evidence from Reported Experience 

      Martin-Ortega, Julia; Ojea, Elena; Roux, Camille (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10-10)
      Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are attracting increasing interest as policy mechanisms to improve conservation and sustainable development outcomes. PES initiatives aim to reach mutually beneficial agreements ...
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      Price Premium for High-Efficiency Refrigerators and Calculation of Price-Elasticities for Close-Substitutes: Combining Hedonic Pricing and Demand Systems 

      Galarraga, Ibon; Heres, David; González-Eguino, Mikel (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-08-30)
      This article uses the hedonic pricing method to estimate the price premium paid for the highest energy-efficiency label (A+) in the refrigerators market of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The estimated figure is ...
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      Regional IAM: analysis of risk-adjusted costs and benefits of climate policies 

      Golub, Alexander; Lugovoy, Oleg; Markandya, Anil; Ortiz, Ramon Arigoni; Wang, James (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-02)
      Across the full range of publications in the field of economics of climate change there is perhaps only one firm agreement: both costs and benefits of climate policy are highly uncertain. In an ideal world one would wait ...
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      The Costs of Drought: the Exceptional 2007-2008 Case of Barcelona 

      Martin-Ortega, Julia; Markandya, Anil (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-11-18)
      The drought affecting Catalonia between 2007 and 2008 was the most severe of the last century and serves as a case study for the assessment of the economic costs of such an event. The main focus is the drought affecting ...
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      The Costs of Ecosystem Adaptation: Methodology and Estimates for Indian Forests 

      Ojea, Elena; Ghosh, Ranjan; Agrawal, Bharat; Joshi, P.K. (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-11-18)
      This paper presents a detailed methodology for estimating the cost of adaptation to climate change impacts on ecosystems. Up to date estimates are built-up following national investments in measures such as protected areas, ...
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      The Demand for Environmental Quality in Driving Transitions to Low Polluting Energy Sources 

      Fouquet, Roger (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-11-15)
      The purpose of this paper is to understand the long run demand for energy-related environmental quality, its influence on legislation and on transitions to low polluting energy sources. It starts by presenting a simple ...
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      The Determinants of Energy Efficiency Investments in the U.S. 

      Abadie, Luis María; Arigoni Ortiz, Ramon; Galarraga, Ibon (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-11-08)
      This paper analyses decisions on energy efficiency (EE) investments by small and medium manufacturing enterprises in the U.S. which have received assessment from the Department of Energy (DoE). The results confirm the ...