Climate Change Impacts and Market Driven Adaptation: The Costs of Inaction Including Market Rigidities

Belize and Climate Change : The Costs of Inaction

Climate Protection Assessment of Costs of Inaction or Delayed Action of Climate Protection and Climate Change

T he ultimate objective of the climate convention and of related instruments like the Kyoto protocol is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids dangerous climate change. In order to considerably reduce risks of climate change, the European Union already decided a climate protection target: to prevent global surface temperature to increase more than 2°C (Celsius) compared to pr...

Impacts of Market-based Climate Change Policy on the US Iron and Steel Industry

Market-based climate change policy instruments have frequently been proposed as efficient means to stimulate industrial energy efficiency improvements and to reduce carbon emissions. This paper presents an assessment of the impacts that energy taxes and policies that increase cost of carbon may have on energy use and emission profiles of the US iron and steel industry. Time series data and engi...

Endogenous Labor Market Rigidities and Family Ties

Much has been written about institutional differences between European and North American labor markets, and about their role in determining the large and persistent differences between the unemployment rates in Europe and US over the last fifteen-twenty years. The objective of this paper is to answer the question: why have these differences in labor market flexibility emerged and why do they p...

The science of climate change in Africa: impacts and adaptation

the African climate is determined at the macro-level by three major processes or drivers: tropical convection, the alternation of the monsoons, and the el niño-southern oscillation of the Pacific ocean. the first two are local processes that determine the regional and seasonal patterns of temperature and rainfall. the last is more remote in its origin, but strongly influences the year to year r...