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Chinese food security and climate change : agriculture futures
Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - 2014
the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as … suggest that China will be able to maintain a level of at least 3,000 kilocalories per day through 2010 to 2050. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227688
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Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity : Accounting for renewable natural resources and ecosystem services
Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel - 2023
Multifactor productivity is a comprehensive measure of productivity where the underlying production function accounts for multiple factor inputs, traditionally labour and produced capital. While single-factor productivity is intuitively simple, such measure offers a biased picture of the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014491306
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Natural Capital Considerations for an Extension of the U.S. Marine Economy Satellite Account
Wielgus, Jeffrey; Grasso, Mônica; Colgan, Charles S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In an effort to measure and track marine-dependent economic activities, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed two statistical tools: The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) and the Marine Economy Satellite Account (MESA). In both efforts, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250126
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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271429
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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014), pp. 1-39
the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as … suggest that China will be able to maintain a level of at least 3,000 kilocalories per day through 2010 to 2050. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954733
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Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS): Technical, Institutional and Policy Lessons
Clapp, Christa; Briner, Gregory; Karousakis, Katia - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
and analysing reliable data on mitigation costs and climate change impacts; identifying and addressing barriers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276735
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Monitoring and Tracking Long-Term Finance to Support Climate Action
Buchner, Barbara; Brown, Jessica; Corfee-Morlot, Jan - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
The Cancún Agreements formalise a collective commitment by developed countries to provide new and additional funding for action on climate change in developing countries both in the short- and longer-term. This collective financial commitment requires a system to measure, report and verify...
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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation: An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy
Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity building to analyse the optimal portfolio of … investments in mitigation followed by large adaptation expenditures a few decades later. Hence, the possibility to adapt does not …
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Regulatory transparency in multilateral agreements controlling exports of tropical timber, e-waste and conflict diamonds
Wolfe, Robert; Baddeley, Shane - 2012
Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684779
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Villes et croissance verte : Etude de cas de la région Paris/Ile-de-France
Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia - 2012
adaptation du processus de passation des marchés publics. Financer la croissance verte impliquera également la poursuite du …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012441714