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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures

Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Food security in China affects the livelihood and well-being of one-fifth of the world population. Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops...

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Including Maritime Transport in the EU´s Climate Change Policy: Country-Based Allocation and Effects

Heitmann, Nadine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The European Union (EU) is actively campaigning for the global regulation of carbon emissions generated by maritime bunker fuels because these emissions are presently barely regulated and are projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. However, since a global regulation has not...

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The Potential Contribution of the Shipping Sector to an Efficient Reduction of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Heitmann, Nadine; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In this paper, we analyze how much the shipping sector could contribute to global CO2 emission reductions from an efficiency point of view. To do this, a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for the shipping sector is generated that can be combined with a MACC for conventional CO2 abatement in...

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Informed and Uninformed Opinions on New Measures to Address Climate Change

Kniebes, Carola; Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Climate engineering (CE) and carbon capture and storage sub-seabed (CCS-S) are currently controversially debated …, namely, stratospheric sulphate injection (SSI) and afforestation, as well as CCS-S. Using data from a novel large … between the three measures. Afforestation is strongly favoured over CCS-S and SSI. This ranking holds independent of the …

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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production: accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries

Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We estimate the impact of climate change on agricultural production in a panel of 127 countries from 1961 to 2002. In contrast to the existing literature we account for cross-sectional dependence and technology heterogeneity. We find no significant impact of climate change on agricultural...

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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

economic models. In addition, the paper draws on the literature to complement the quantitative analysis with policy … projected to be mostly negative and the costs will have to be carried mainly by urban and richer households. From a policy …

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Uncertainty and economic analysis of climate change : a survey of approaches and findings

Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

meaningful policy recommendations. The main contribution of economics to this interdisciplinary task is to provide formal … frameworks and techniques for analyzing climate policy in the context of uncertainty. This paper will give an overview of …

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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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Economic impacts of climate change on two Mexican coastal fisheries: Implications to food security

Aguilar Ibarra, Alonso; Sanchez Vargas, Armando; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper has a two-fold objective. First, to estimate the changes in landings value by 2030 of two Mexican coastal fisheries: shrimp and sardines as a consequence of climate change. And second, to discuss the implications for food security of such impacts. We estimated output equations using a...

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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures

Takle, Eugene S.; Gustafson, David; Beachy, Roger; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. The lack of additional arable land and availability of freshwater have long been constraints on agriculture. However, the increased frequency of extreme and...

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