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Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia: Adapting to Climate and Environmental Change

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders’ livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are thus among the most vulnerable groups to climate change impacts. However, although climate change impacts on grassland ecosystems are...

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The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon

Vale, Petterson Molina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence … of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect’). The reduced-form model I …

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Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings Towards Common Approaches and Better Results

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

Australian Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank confirmed their …

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North / South Contractual Design through the REDD+ Scheme

Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Poudou, Jean-Christophe; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

In this paper we aim at theoretically grounding the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … incomplete information about reference levels of deforestation as well as exogenous implementation and transaction costs, we … compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation …

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Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the UK

Guignet, Dennis; Alberini, Anna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Hedonic property value models are often used to place a value on localized amenities and disamenities. In practice, however, results may be affected by (i) omitted variable bias and (ii) whether homebuyers and sellers are aware of, and respond to, the assumed environmental measure. In this paper...

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Unbundling Technology Adoption and tfp at the Firm Level. Do Intangibles Matter?

Farzin, Y.H.; Bond, C.A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

When it comes to environmental quality preferences, it is popularly believed that Democrats (and more generally, liberals) are “green” while Republicans” (conservatives) are “brown”. Does empirical evidence support this popular belief? We test the hypothesis that regional political...

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Same Energy, More power: Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Asia

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Energy efficiency is often defined as delivered energy service per unit of energy supplied into a system. Supply-side energy efficiency refers to decreasing energy losses in the supply chain, for improved performance in the production and delivery of electricity and heat. Demandside energy...

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Viet Nam: Environment and Climate Change Assessment

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is preparing sector assessments, thematic papers, strategies, and road maps to help align future ADB support with the needs and strategies of developing member countries and other development partners. A thematic paper is a working document that addresses a...

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A Quantitative Assessment of the Implications of Including non-CO2 Emissions in the European ETS

Orecchia, Carlo; Parrado, Ramiro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Although CO2 emissions stand for most of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the contribution of mitigation efforts based on non-CO2 emissions is still a field that needs to be explored more thoroughly. Extending abatement opportunities to non-CO2 could reduce overall mitigation costs but it could...

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Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience

Ranson, Matthew; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world’s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse … loss of control over domestic carbon policies, which do not appear to have deterred real-world decisions to link. These …

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