This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can …

binding agreement in sight as the global climate regime and the global trade policy regime represented by the WTO appear to be … on a collision course. Following a review of the alternative architectures for the next Climate Change Agreement, the … on the extent of pollution haven effects suggests that these should be small under climate mitigation policies …

biocarbon. One shock only, the discovery of the technology to use fossil fuels, leads to a transition from an inital pre …

informative for climate change policy. …

We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past …, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that … aggregate infant deaths in Africa, due to extreme weather events and to maternal malaria in epidemic areas for 1981-2000 and …

We propose a dynamic spatial theory to analyze the geographic impact of climate change. Agricultural and manufacturing … temperature. The rise in temperature differs across latitudes and sectors. We calibrate the model to analyze how climate change …

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world …