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Coupling GEMINI-E3 and MARKAL-CHRES to Simulate Swiss Climate Policies

Philippe Thalmann
2008
Working Papers

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This report collects two studies hat have been performed in the Research group on the Economics and Management of the Environment of EPFL to assess the Swiss post-Kyoto climate policy with a focus on the residential sector. We couple two existing top-down and residential bottom-up models in order to carry out a integrated assessment of various post-2012 climate policies for Switzerland.

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Philippe Thalmann
2008
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