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Climate change mitigation is urgent, and adaptation to climate change is crucial, particularly in agriculture, where … direct and indirect agricultural emissions), can however contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation. The … main mitigation potential lies in the capacity of agricultural soils to sequester CO2 through building organic matter. This …
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potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … within-group levels of mitigation. We compare low-vulnerability and high-vulnerability treatments by varying the magnitude of … disaster across treatments. Our results show that there is no significant difference in the level of mitigation across these …
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adaptation in rural communities. Organic agriculture has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This text is a short … review article on this topic. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice … mitigation strategy are low. Further research is needed on yields in organic agriculture and its mitigation and sequestration …
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A range of alternatives to the Global Warming Potential (GWP) have been suggested in the scientific literature. One of these alternative metrics that has received significant attention is the cost-effective relative valuation of greenhouse gases. However, this metric is based on complex...
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In this paper we analyze the e¤ects of environmental policies on the size distribution of firms. We model a stationary industry where the observed size distribution is a solution to the profit maximization problem of heterogeneous firms that di¤er in terms of their energy efficiency. We...
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In this paper we analyze the eects of the choice of price (taxes) versus quantity (tradable permits) instruments on the policy response to technological change. We show that if policy responses incur transactional and political adjustment costs, environmental targets are less likely to be...
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There are many situations where environmental authorities use a mix of environmental policy instruments, rather than one single instrument, to address environmental concerns. For example, one instrument may be used to reduce overall emissions of a pollutant while another is used to address...
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The idea of Personal Carbon Allowances (PCAs) was presented by the British Environment Secretary David Miliband in 2006. Although no state is seriously developing proposals for them, they have been heavily debated within academia, NGOs and policy making circles. PCAs can be seen as a logical...
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A personal carbon allowance (PCA) scheme targets emissions from individual consumption and allocates allowances directly to individuals by dividing the carbon budget on a per capita basis. In this study we analyse the results of a survey sent out to a representative sample of the Swedish...
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Improvement in soil carbon through conservation agriculture in developing countries may generate some private benefits to farmers as well as sequester carbon emissions, which is a positive externality to society. Leaving crop residue on the farm has become an important option in conservation...
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