Flexible Multi-gas Climate Policies

Jesper Jensen

The Energy Journal, 2006, vol. 27, issue 3_suppl, 163-175

Abstract: I analyse the costs of policies aimed at stabilising global climate change. I show that abatement of all major greenhouse gases is important to the costs of climate policies and that flexible reduction of methane and other non-CO2 gases may reduce costs significantly. The non-CO2 gases offer many low-cost abatement options and this reduces the need for abatement of CO2 to stabilise climate change. Multi-gas flexibility may be important if climate policies reflect not only long-term stabilisation, but also the rate at which the climate changes, as the latter may require large reductions in emissions in the short-term.

Keywords: Climate policy; Flexible multi-gas mitigation; EDGE model; Efficient abatement options (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-VolSI2006-NoSI3-8

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