Publications by Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Integrated Assessment of Swiss GHG Mitigation Policies After 2012

André Sceia, Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

The residential sector presents a great potential for greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation. We perform an integrated assessment of different mitigation policies for Switzerland focusing on the residential sector. We analyze the case of pure incentive taxes an ...

Springer Netherlands2012

Assessment of Acceptable Swiss post-2012 Climate Policies

André Sceia, Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

In the framework of the revision of the Swiss CO2-Law and in the preparation of the international negotiations that place at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Swiss Government has proposed a set ...

2012

Trade-offs and performances of a range of alternative global climate architectures for post-2012

Philippe Thalmann, Ronal Gainza Carmenates, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Quantitative assessments help to highlight the main features of climate policies by better identifying their strengths and weaknesses. In this study, we develop a grading system for assessing thirteen proposals for post-2012 climate policy. We believe that ...

2010

Stakeholder-based Scenarios for Post-2012 Climate Policy: A Participatory Approach

Philippe Thalmann, José Luis Carrasco Terceros, Ronal Gainza Carmenates, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

We performed a study to define the key elements of feasible global climate policy scenarios for the post-2012 UNFCCC regime by contacting – through a series of questionnaires – 149 stakeholders involved in climate-change discussions. We applied a Multiple ...

2009

Climate Change and Tourism in Switzerland : Impacts, Vulnerability and Possible Adaptation Measures

Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, Cecilia Matasci

Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its effects occur on a local scale. An example is provided by tourism. Tourism is closely interlinked with climate change both as culprit and as victim. On the one hand, it is responsible for a large portion of GH ...

Innsbruck University Press2009

Permit Trading and Stability of Climate Agreements

Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

We analyze the implication of different allocation schemes of CO2-emission permits for stability and the success of international climate agreements. Our model combines a game theoretical with an empirical module that comprises 12 world regions and capture ...

2006