Marginal abatement cost curves: a call for caution

F Kesicki, P Ekins - Climate Policy, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Legal commitments to reduce CO2 emissions require policy makers to find cost-efficient
means to meet these obligations. Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves, which illustrate the …

Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves: confronting theory and practice

F Kesicki, N Strachan - Environmental science & policy, 2011 - Elsevier
Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves are a commonly used policy tool indicating emission
abatement potential and associated abatement costs. They have been extensively used for …

[PDF][PDF] Marginal abatement cost curves for policy making–expert-based vs. model-derived curves

F Kesicki - Energy Institute, University College London, 2010 - homepages.ucl.ac.uk
Legal commitments to reduce CO2 emissions require policy makers to find cost-efficient
means to meet the obligations. Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves have frequently been …

Marginal abatement costs and marginal welfare costs for greenhouse gas emissions reductions: results from the EPPA model

J Morris, S Paltsev, J Reilly - Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 2012 - Springer
Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves, relationships between tonnes of emissions abated
and the CO 2 (or greenhouse gas (GHG)) price, have been widely used as pedagogic …

[PDF][PDF] Marginal abatement cost curves: a call for caution

P Ekins, F Kesicki, AZP Smith - London, UK: University College …, 2011 - researchgate.net
This report critically reviews various issues relating to the construction and interpretation of
marginal abatement cost curves (MACC, or MAC curves) for reducing emissions of …

Marginal abatement costs and marginal welfare costs for greenhouse gas emissions reductions: results from the EPPA model

J Morris, S Paltsev, JM Reilly - 2008 - dspace.mit.edu
Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves, relationships between tons of emissions abated and
the CO2 (or GHG) price, have been widely used as pedagogic devices to illustrate simple …

The costs of mitigating carbon emissions: A review of methods and findings from European studies

F Krause - Energy Policy, 1996 - Elsevier
Conventional wisdom has it that top-down studies of mitigation costs are too pessimistic
while bottom-up studies are too optimistic. In examining mitigation cost studies for Western …

Long-term marginal abatement cost curves of non-CO2 greenhouse gases

JHM Harmsen, DP van Vuuren, DR Nayak… - … Science & Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents a new comprehensive set of long-term Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC)
curves of all major non-CO 2 greenhouse gas emission sources. The work builds on existing …

Considering environmental costs of greenhouse gas emissions for setting a CO2 tax: A review

TM Bachmann - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Triggered by the Fridays for Future movement, policy makers increasingly discuss the
introduction of a CO 2 tax. Determining an adequate CO 2 tax level is complicated for …

Marginal abatement cost curves and the optimal timing of mitigation measures

A Vogt-Schilb, S Hallegatte - Energy Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Decision makers facing abatement targets need to decide which abatement measures to
implement, and in which order. Measure-explicit marginal abatement cost curves depict the …