A new economics approach to modelling policies to achieve global 2020 targets for climate stabilisation

International Review of Applied Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-221

  Barker, Terry ^a   Anger, Annela ^a   Chewpreecha, Unnada ^b   Pollitt, Hector ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE ECONOMETRICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change mitigation; energy environment economy (E3) modelling; green new deal; post 2012 policies; World Energy Outlook

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INVESTMENT; MITIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84858272358     PISSN: 02692171     EISSN: 14653486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2011.631901     Document Type: Article

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