When starting with the most expensive option makes sense: Use and misuse of marginal abatement cost curves

A Vogt-Schilb, S Hallegatte - World Bank Policy Research Working …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
This article investigates the use of expert-based Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACC)
to design abatement strategies. It shows that introducing inertia, in the form of the" cost in …

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 …

[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 …

On the cost-effectiveness of national economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions abatement measures

C Sotiriou, A Michopoulos, T Zachariadis - Energy policy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper explores cost-effective greenhouse gas abatement options for the European
Union Member State of Cyprus, for those sectors of the national economy that are not …

Marginal abatement cost curves and the quality of emission reductions: a case study on Brazil

A Vogt-Schilb, S Hallegatte, C De Gouvello - Climate Policy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Decision makers facing emission-reduction targets need to decide which abatement
measures to implement, and in which order. This article investigates how marginal …

Long-term mitigation strategies and marginal abatement cost curves: a case study on Brazil

A Vogt-Schilb, S Hallegatte… - World Bank Policy …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
Decision makers facing abatement targets need to decide which abatement measures to
implement, and in which order. This paper investigates the ability of marginal abatement …

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 …

A cost–benefit analysis of the EU 20/20/2020 package

RSJ Tol - Energy Policy, 2012 - Elsevier
The European Commission did not publish a cost–benefit analysis for its 2020 climate
package. This paper fills that gap, comparing the marginal costs and benefits of greenhouse …

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 …

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 …