Economic tradeoffs in mitigation, due to different atmospheric lifetimes of CO2 and black carbon

Ashwin K. Seshadri

Ecological Economics, 2015, vol. 114, issue C, 47-57

Abstract: Tradeoffs are examined between mitigating black carbon (BC) and carbon dioxide (CO2) for limiting peak global mean warming, using the following set of methods. A two-box climate model is used to simulate temperatures of the atmosphere and ocean for different rates of mitigation. Mitigation rates for BC and CO2 are characterized by respective timescales for e-folding reduction in emissions intensity of gross global product. There are respective emissions models that force the box model. Lastly there is a simple economics model, with cost of mitigation varying inversely with emission intensity.

Keywords: Global climate change; Climate change mitigation; Black carbon; Carbon dioxide; Mitigation tradeoffs; Mitigation timescales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.004

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