A macroeconomic perspective on climate change mitigation: Meeting the financing challenge

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bowen, Alex ^a   Campiglio, Emanuele ^a   Tavoni, Massimo ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

Author keywords

climate change; Integrated Assessment Models; investments; Macroeconomics; savings; tax revenues

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073411375     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007814400053     Document Type: Article

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