Operationalizing climate targets under learning: An application of cost-risk analysis

Climatic Change

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 305-318

  Neubersch, Delf ^a,b   Held, Hermann ^a   Otto, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate economics; Climate target; Cost risk analysis; Integrated assessment; Optimal climate policy; Uncertainty; Value of information

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE POLICY; CLIMATE TARGETS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FUTURE PROSPECT; MITIGATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85027934415     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1223-z     Document Type: Article

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