Browsing by Subject "Climate policy"
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The Climate Change Response Bill 2010: An Assessment
(ESRI, 25/01/2011)Climate change is an important problem. It would be desirable to have legislation that would put Ireland on a low-cost and equitable trajectory to a zero-carbon economy. The draft Climate Change Response Bill 2010 will not ... -
Climate feedbacks on the terrestrial biosphere and the economics of climate policy : an application of Fund
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Regional and Sectoral Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon: An Application of FUND
(ESRI, 2011)The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the benefit of reducing CO2 emissions by one ton today. As such it is a key input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates ... -
The Social Cost of Carbon
(ESRI, 28/02/2011)This paper surveys the literature on the economic impact of climate change. Different methods have been used to estimate the impact of climate change on human welfare. Studies agree that there are positive and negative ...