Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54923 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3664
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The quintessence of recent natural science studies is that the 2°C target can only be achieved with massive emission reductions in the next few years. The central twist of this paper is the addition of this limited time to act into a non-perpetual real options framework analysing optimal climate policy under uncertainty. The window-of-opportunity modelling setup shows that the limited time to act may spark a trend reversal in the direction of low-carbon alternatives. However, the implementation of a climate policy is evaded by high uncertainty about possible climate pathways.
Subjects: 
climate policy
CO2 scenarios
non-perpetual real options
JEL: 
Q51
Q54
D81
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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