DICER: A tool for analyzing climate policies

Energy Economics

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Ortiz, Ramon Arigoni ^a   Golub, Alexander ^b   Lugovoy, Oleg ^c   Markandya, Anil ^a   Wang, James ^d  

^a BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^b UBS Bank   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Integrated Impact Assessment Model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE POLICY; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DISCOUNT RATES; GLOBAL CLIMATES; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; INTEGRATED IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODEL; KEY PARAMETERS; LOWER PEAK TEMPERATURES; SENSITIVITY-OF-RESULTS;

CLIMATE MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054903871     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.07.025     Document Type: Article

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