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Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Food Security: Evidence from Yemen
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest...
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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … south there is a possibility of drier climate, which has a negative impact on crop yields and livestock productivity. In …
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Desert Power 2050: Regional and sectoral impacts of renewable electricity production in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa
Calzadilla, Alvaro; Wiebelt, Manfred; Blohmke, Julian; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
“Desert Power 2050” is probably the world’s most ambitious strategy report towards the decarbonization of the power sector in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EUMENA). The report inspired by the Desertec vision aims at providing clean energy from MENA’s desert regions to the...
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Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a funding opportunity for development: A macroeconomic CGE analysis of the Peruvian experience
Montaud, Jean-Marc; Pécastaing, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol constitutes a major tool in the fight against climate change; it is also an important foreign direct investment funding opportunity for Southern countries. Yet, few studies have focused on the economic impact of CDM on host countries....
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Worse off from reduced cost? The role of policy design under uncertain technological advancement
Weitzel, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
A simple model is used to illustrate the effects of a reduction in (marginal) abatement cost in a two country setting. It can be shown that a the country experiencing a cost reduction can actually be worse off. This holds true for a variety of quantity and price based emission policies. The most...
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Effects of international climate policy for India: Evidence from a national and global CGE model
Weitzel, Matthias; Ghosh, Joydeep; Peterson, Sonja; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In order to reach the two degree target it is necessary to control CO2 emissions also in fast growing emerging economies such as India. The question is how the Indian economy would be affected by e.g. including the country into an international climate regime. Existing analyses with either a...
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Modelling the Economic Impact of Global Warming in a General Equilibrium Framework
Kurtze, Christiane; Springer, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
The issue of global warming has become a major topic in the international environmental debate. Alternative climate policy measures can be evaluated with the help of a simulation model that integrates economic and natural science considerations. A fully integrated assessment of the two-way...
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The Impact of the 2008 Hadramout Flash Flood in Yemen on Economic Performance and Nutrition: A Simulation Analysis
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Thiele, Rainer; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Combining a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (DCGE) model of the Yemeni economy with a microsimulation model that captures the link between changes in household incomes and changes in nutrition status, this paper provides a quantitative assessment of the agricultural, economy-wide, and...
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Who bears the costs of climate change? Evidence from Tunisia
Wiebelt, Manfred; Al-Raffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
In order to estimate the economic costs of climate change for Tunisia, this paper uses a combination of biophysical and economic models. In addition, the paper draws on the literature to complement the quantitative analysis with policy recommendations on how to adapt to the changing climate. The...
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Marginal abatement cost curves in general equilibrium: The influence of world energy prices
Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) are a favorite instrument to analyze international emissions trading. This paper focusses on the question of how to define MACCs in a general equilibrium context where the global abatement level influences energy prices and in turn national MACCs. We...
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