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Multiple benefits from climate change mitigation: assessing the evidence

Policy publication by Kirk Hamilton, Milan Brahmbhatt, Jiemei Liu on 3 Nov 2017

This report assesses what is known about potential co-benefits across multiple domains: environmental, economy-wide, and sector-specific. It then reports on empirical results on co-benefits, in particular the application of integrated assessment models (IAMs) to simulate co-benefits over the course of the century. read more »




Evidence on business cycles and CO2 emissions

Research article by Baran Doda on 28 Jun 2014

CO2 emissions and GDP move together over the business cycle. Most climate change researchers would agree with this statement despite the absence of a study that formally analyzes the relationship between emissions and GDP at business cycle frequencies. The paper provides a rigorous empirical analysis of this relationship in a comprehensive cross-country panel by decomposing the emissions and GDP series into their growth and cyclical components using the HP filter. read more »