Marginal abatement cost curves and the optimal timing of mitigation measures

Energy Policy

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 645-653

  Vogt Schilb, Adrien ^a   Hallegatte, Stéphane ^b  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; Dynamic efficiency; Sectoral policies

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; DYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; EMISSION REDUCTION STRATEGY; INTERTEMPORAL OPTIMIZATION; MARGINAL ABATEMENT COST CURVES; MITIGATION MEASURES; MITIGATION POLICIES; SECTORAL POLICIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABATEMENT COST; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84892486654     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.11.045     Document Type: Article

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