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International Support of Climate Change Policies in Developing Countries: Strategic, Moral and Fairness Aspects
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-02-01)
International transfers in climate policy channeled from the industrialized to the developing world either support the mitigation of climate change or the adaptation to global warming. From an allocative efficiency point ...
The Uniform World Model: A Methodology for Predicting the Health Impacts of Air Pollution
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-12-12)
Throughout history, technological development and economic growth has led to greater prosperity and overall standard of living for many people in society. However, along with the benefits of economic development comes the ...
Low Climate Stabilisation under Diverse Growth and Convergence Scenarios
(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. ...
The Long Run Demand for Lighting: Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-26)
The provision of artificial light was revolutionised by a series of discontinuous innovations in lighting appliances, fuels, infrastructures and institutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Britain, the ...
Households WTP for the Reliability of Gas Supply
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-07)
The security of natural gas supply is an important issue for all EU countries due to the region’s heavy dependence on imported supply sources and in light of energy demand for gas that is continuously increasing. Discussions ...
The Role of Regions in Climate Change Policy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-13)
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind. Urgent policy action is needed. Climate change policies are mainly being discussed at international level by means of the United Nations Conventions and ...
The Private Provision of International Impure Public Goods: the Case of Climate Policy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-09-09)
We discuss a tax-transfer scheme that aims at addressing the under-provision problem associated with the private supply of international public goods and at bringing about Pareto optimal allocations internationally. In ...
Price Premium for High-Efficiency Refrigerators and Calculation of Price-Elasticities for Close-Substitutes: Combining Hedonic Pricing and Demand Systems
(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 ...
The Equivalency Principle for Discounting the Value of Natural Assets: An Application to an Investment Project in the Basque Coast
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-10-10)
Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one ...
The Costs of Drought: the Exceptional 2007-2008 Case of Barcelona
(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 ...