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Reference (article)

"Mitigation and the Geoengineering Threat" - J. Moreno-Cruz, Environmental Economics and Management, 2010.

Abstract

Recent scientific advances have introduced the possibility of engineering the climate system to lower ambient temperatures without lowering greenhouse gas concentrations. This possibility has created an intense debate given the ethical, moral and scientific questions it raises. This paper examines the economic issues introduced when geoengineering becomes available in a standard two country model where strategic interaction leads to suboptimal mitigation. Geoengineering naturally introduces the possibility of technical substitution away from mitigation, but it also affects the strategic interaction across countries. With similar countries, I find these strategic effects create greater incentives for free-riding, but with asymmetric countries, the prospect of geoengineering can induce greater mitigation levels in equilibrium.

Keywords

Geoengineering, Mitigation, Climate Change, Moreno-Cruz, 2010

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