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eeu sweden rff usa | Climate change Policy design Climate Policy, Uncertainty, and the Role of Technological Innovation We study how uncertainty about climate change severity affects the relative benefits of early abatement and a portfolio of research and development (R&D) in lowering future abatement costs. Optimal early abatement depends on the curvature of the marginal benefit and marginal abatement cost (MAC) functions and how the uncertain parameter affects marginal benefits. Fischer, C and T Sterner, 2012, "Climate Policy, Uncertainty, and the Role of Technological Innovation", Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol 14 Iss 2 (pp285–309)

eeu sweden rff usa | Climate change Policy design How Should Support for Climate-Friendly Technologies Be Designed? Stabilizing global greenhouse gas concentrations at levels to avoid significant climate risks will require massive ‘‘decarbonization’’ of all the major economies over the next few decades, in addition to the reduced emissions from other GHGs and carbon sequestration. Achieving the necessary scale of emissions reductions will require a multifaceted policy effort to support a broad array of technological and behavioral changes. Change on this scale will require sound, well-thought-out strategies. Fischer, C., A. Torvanger, A., M.K. Shrivastava, T. Sterner, P. Stigson, 2012, “How Should Support for Climate-Friendly Technologies Be Designed?” Ambio, 41 Suppl 1 pp. 33-45. DOI 10.1007/s13280-011-0239-0

china eeu sweden | Climate change Policy design The Fossil Endgame: Strategic Oil Price Discrimination and Carbon Taxation This paper analyzes how fossil fuel-producing countries can counteract climate policy. We analyze the exhaustion of oil resources and the subsequent transition to a backstop technology as a strategic game between the consumers and producers of oil, which we refer to simply as ‘OECD’ and ‘OPEC’, respectively. Wei, J., D Johansson, M Hennlock and T Sterner, (2012) “The Fossil Endgame: Strategic Oil Price Discrimination and Carbon Taxation”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

eeu sweden | Climate change Policy design Are experienced people affected by a pre-set default option—Results from a field experiment The objective of the present paper is to investigate the robustness of the well-known result that pre-set default options determine people’s choices. We do so by conducting a field experiment among environmental economists attending a large international conference on environmental economics. Löfgren, Å P Martinsson, M Hennlock, T Sterner, “Are experienced people affected by a pre-set default option—Results from a field experiment”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 66-72

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