Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74186 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 86.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
One of the main issues in the climate policy agenda, the timing of abatement efforts, hinges on the uncertainties of climate change risks and technological evolution. We use a stochastic optimization framework and jointly explore these two features. First, we embed in the model future potential large-scale availability of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies. While non-CCS mitigation that reduces fossil energy use is modelled as exerting inertia on the economic system, mainly due to the durability of the capital in energy systems and to technology lock-in and lock-out phenomena, the implementation of CCS technologies is modelled as implying less resilience of the system to changes in policy directions. Second, climate uncertainty is related in the model to the atmospheric temperature response to an increase in GHGs concentration. Performing different simulation experiments, we find that the environmental target, derived from a cost-benefit analysis, should be more ambitious when CCS is included in the picture. Moreover, the possible future availability of CCS is not a reason to significantly reduce near-term optimal abatement efforts. Finally, the availability of better information on the climate cycle is in general more valuable than better information on the CCS technological option.
Subjects: 
Climate change
Uncertainty
Sequestration
Cost-benefit analysis
JEL: 
D62
D63
H23
Q29
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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