Non-CO2 greenhouse gas mitigation modeling with marginal abatement cost curv es: technical change, emission scenarios and policy costs

Journal title ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Author/s Samuel Carrara, Giacomo Marangoni
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/1
Language English Pages 34 P. 91-124 File size 871 KB
DOI 10.3280/EFE2013-001006
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The abatement of non-CO2 greenhouse gases (OGHG) has proved to be of par- amount importance for reaching global mitigation targets. The modeling of their abatement is normally carried out referring to marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves, which by now represent a standard approach for such an analysis. As no evolution scenarios are available to describe future mitigation opportunities for OGHGs, exogenous technical progress factors (TP) are normally imposed, producing progressive MAC dilatation over time. The main aim of this work is to perform a sensitivity analysis evaluating climate and economic effects of imposing various TPs under different policy scenarios. The analysis shows that TP variation has a considerable impact on the climatic and economic results.

Keywords: Environmental economics, non-CO2 greenhouse gases, marginal abatement cost curve, technical change

Jel codes: Q54, Q55

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Samuel Carrara, Giacomo Marangoni, Non-CO2 greenhouse gas mitigation modeling with marginal abatement cost curv es: technical change, emission scenarios and policy costs in "ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT" 1/2013, pp 91-124, DOI: 10.3280/EFE2013-001006