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The ‘2°C capital stock’ for electricity generation: Committed cumulative carbon emissions from the electricity generation sector and the transition to a green economy by Pfeiffer, Alexander, Millar, Richard, Hepburn, Cameron, Beinhocker, Eric

“…•Defines ‘2°C capital stock’ as infrastructure that gives a 50% chance of 2°C warming.•The ‘2°C capital stock’ for electricity generation will be reached by…”
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The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal by Hepburn, Cameron, Adlen, Ella, Beddington, John, Carter, Emily A., Fuss, Sabine, Mac Dowell, Niall, Minx, Jan C., Smith, Pete, Williams, Charlotte K.

“…The capture and use of carbon dioxide to create valuable products might lower the net costs of reducing emissions or removing carbon dioxide from the…”
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Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? by Hepburn, Cameron, O’Callaghan, Brian, Stern, Nicholas, Stiglitz, Joseph, Zenghelis, Dimitri

“…Abstract The COVID-19 crisis is likely to have dramatic consequences for progress on climate change. Imminent fiscal recovery packages could entrench or partly…”
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Towards carbon neutrality and China's 14th Five-Year Plan: Clean energy transition, sustainable urban development, and investment priorities by Hepburn, Cameron, Qi, Ye, Stern, Nicholas, Ward, Bob, Xie, Chunping, Zenghelis, Dimitri

“…China's 14th Five-Year Plan, for the period 2021–25, presents a real opportunity for China to link its long-term climate goals with its short-to medium-term…”
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Committed emissions from existing and planned power plants and asset stranding required to meet the Paris Agreement by Pfeiffer, Alexander, Hepburn, Cameron, Vogt-Schilb, Adrien, Caldecott, Ben

“…Over the coming decade, the power sector is expected to invest ~7.2 trillion USD in power plants and grids globally, much of it into CO2-emitting coal and gas…”
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Is Natural Capital Really Substitutable? by Cohen, François, Hepburn, Cameron J, Teytelboym, Alexander

“…The extent to which natural capital can be substituted with manufactured or human capital in production is a key determinant of the possibility of long-run…”
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Valuing water for sustainable development by Garrick, Dustin E., Hall, Jim W., Dobson, Andrew, Damania, Richard, Grafton, R. Quentin, Hope, Robert, Hepburn, Cameron, Bark, Rosalind, Boltz, Frederick, De Stefano, Lucia, O’Donnell, Erin, Matthews, Nathanial, Money, Alex

“…Measurement and governance must advance together Achieving universal, safely managed water and sanitation services by 2030, as envisioned by the United Nations…”
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Equity weighting and the marginal damage costs of climate change by Anthoff, David, Hepburn, Cameron, Tol, Richard S.J.

“…Climate change will give rise to different impacts in different countries, and different countries have different levels of development. Equity-weighted…”
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Intermediate inputs and economic productivity by Baptist, Simon, Hepburn, Cameron

“…Many models of economic growth exclude materials, energy and other intermediate inputs from the production function. Growing environmental pressures and…”
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A stated preference investigation into the Chinese demand for farmed vs. wild bear bile by Dutton, Adam J, Hepburn, Cameron, Macdonald, David W

“…Farming of animals and plants has recently been considered not merely as a more efficient and plentiful supply of their products but also as a means of…”
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Designing carbon markets. Part I: Carbon markets in time by Fankhauser, Samuel, Hepburn, Cameron

“…This paper analyses the design of carbon markets in time (i.e., intertemporally). It is part of a twin set of papers that ask, starting from first principles,…”
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COMBINING MULTIPLE CLIMATE POLICY INSTRUMENTS: HOW NOT TO DO IT by FANKHAUSER, SAMUEL, HEPBURN, CAMERON, PARK, JISUNG

“…Putting a price on carbon is critical for climate change policy. Increasingly, policymakers combine multiple policy tools to achieve this, for example by…”
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The impact of CO2 emissions trading on firm profits and market prices by Smale, Robin, Hartley, Murray, Hepburn, Cameron, Ward, John, Grubb, Michael

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Behavioural Economics, Hyperbolic Discounting and Environmental Policy by Hepburn, Cameron, Duncan, Stephen, Papachristodoulou, Antonis

“…This paper reviews some recent research in “behavioural economics” with an application to environmental issues. Empirical results from behavioural economics…”
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Optimal harvesting of fish stocks under a time-varying discount rate by Duncan, Stephen, Hepburn, Cameron, Papachristodoulou, Antonis

“…Optimal control theory has been extensively used to determine the optimal harvesting policy for renewable resources such as fish stocks. In such optimisations,…”
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Declining Discount Rates: The Long and the Short of it by Pearce, David W, Hepburn, Cameron J, Koundouri, Phoebe, Groom, Ben

“…The last few years have witnessed important advances in our understanding of time preference and social discounting. In particular, several rationales for the…”
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Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations by Hepburn, Cameron J., Quah, John K.-H., Ritz, Robert A.

“…This paper examines the impact of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) on equilibrium emissions, output, price, market concentration, and profits in a generalized…”
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Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world by Curry, Oliver S., Hare, Darragh, Hepburn, Cameron, Johnson, Dominic D. P., Buhrmester, Michael D., Whitehouse, Harvey, Macdonald, David W.

“…The world faces serious environmental problems. To solve them we must work together. Fortunately, humans are a very cooperative species. We have faced a range…”
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Social discounting under uncertainty: A cross-country comparison by Hepburn, Cameron, Koundouri, Phoebe, Panopoulou, Ekaterini, Pantelidis, Theologos

“…Recent research suggests that social cost-benefit analysis should be conducted with a declining discount rate. For instance Newell and Pizer [Discounting the…”
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Discounting and the social cost of carbon: a closer look at uncertainty by Guo, Jiehan, Hepburn, Cameron J., Tol, Richard S.J., Anthoff, David

“…Recently, in the economics literature, several papers have put forward arguments for using a declining discount rate in social-cost benefit analysis. This…”
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