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Introduction: special issue on the economics of climate change and sustainability (Part B)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2020

Elettra Agliardi*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Marco Casari
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Anastasios Xepapadeas
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: elettra.agliardi@unibo.it

Abstract

Climate change is considered to be one of the most significant and complex challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century. As such, it is essential to increase the knowledge base regarding climate change and how best to address its impacts through efficient policies. This special issue, which is divided into two parts – published in the previous and current issues of Environment and Development Economics – is a selection of papers related to ‘The Economics of Climate Change and Sustainability’, the topic of an international workshop organized by the Economics Department of the University of Bologna in April 2018. The papers in this special issue cover a wide range of climate-change-related topics, including endogenous growth and overlapping generation models; climate-related financing and green bonds; demography; location decisions and technology diffusion; quantitative relationships and experimental approaches. They aim at providing new insights into the economics of climate change and help to identify new directions for future research.

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Introduction
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