This Thesis analyzes the contributions from woody biomass with CCS (BECCS) in mitigating GHG emissions. I used the IAM WITCH tool. In Chapters 2-3 I use biomass supply curves from GLOBIOM. In Chapters 4-5 I instead link ...

A discapito di un’attenzione crescente da parte sia della comunità scientifica che del panorama mediatico, le implicazioni che il cambiamento climatico potrebbe esercitare sulla sicurezza globale rimangono, ad oggi, incerte. ...

Nowadays, the world is facing one of the most critical issue for the world economic stability and trying to procrastinate climate change impacts is no longer acceptable. However, governments have understood that the financial ...

This work is structured into three chapters, each one exploring the effectiveness of climate policies considering the formulation of endogenous technical change (ETC) from different perspectives. Including ETC in a computable ...

Climate change is emerging as systemic risk with domino effects throughout the global banking system and economy. This study formulates a climate-change bank risk index (CCBRω) for the Italian banking system, with a ...

This work analyses the profitability of enhancing a macroeconomic framework (Computable General Equilibrium model) using microdata from household surveys and assessing distributional effects on income and consumption induced ...

In recent years we have all become aware of the fact that the climate is changing, an indisputable fact is that of the average global temperature, which has been growing for more than a hundred years. More and more frequently ...

The thesis addresses the current framework for assessing CDM projects, arguing the potential benefits that standardized baselines could bring to the project cycle. The use of this kind of baselines may contribute to reduce ...