The economics of mitigating climate change: What can we know?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 93-106

  Rosen, Richard A ^a   Guenther, Edeltraud ^b  

^a TELLUS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Economics; Energy efficiency; Mitigation; Technological change; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; ECONOMIC COSTS AND BENEFITS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; MITIGATION; MITIGATION POLICIES; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; MITIGATION; POLICY MAKING; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 84920131831     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.01.013     Document Type: Article

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