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Estimating the costs of REDD at the country level

Pagiola, Stefano; Bosquet, Benoit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Individual countries considering participating in a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD …) mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to … the country would benefit from such sales; (iii) how they might be able to actually reduce deforestation so as to generate …

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Päästökauppajärjestelmien linkittämisen ilmastopoliittiset vaikutukset

Itkonen, Juha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study analyses how linking emissions trading systems affects the economical aspects of climate policy at both national and international levels. The analysis focuses on cost-efficiency, distribution between participants, competitiveness and emissions targets. In addition we examine how...

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Multicriterial Assessment of RES- and Energy-Efficiency Promoting Policy Mixes for Russian Federation

Didenko, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We focus on assessing RES- and energy-efficiency promoting policy mixes for Russia from multicriteria perspective with emphasis on GHG emission reduction. We start from two surveys: the first one studies country’s energy saving and RES potential to determine possible range of outcomes for...

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The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa?

Barrios, Salvador; Ouattara, Bazoumanna; Strobl, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a new cross-country panel climatic dataset in an agricultural production framework. The results...

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Carrots and sticks for new technology: Abating greenhouse gas emissions in a heterogeneous and uncertain world

Robalino, David; Lempert, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Many governments use technology incentives as an important component of their greenhouse gas abatement strategies. These “carrots” are intended to encourage the initial diffusion of new, greenhouse-gas-emissions-reducing technologies, in contrast to carbon taxes and emissions trading which...

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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Soon, Willie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....

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An Analysis of International CO2 agreements

Amundsen, Eirik S.; Lønning, Dag; Rasmussen, Heine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

We examine the effects on GNP for groups of countries after introducing different schemes of tradable CO2 emission rights. The analysis is based on a numerical general equilibrium model of the world economy. The development of prices and trade of energy carriers and emission rights are investigated.

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The environmental impact of globalization on Latin America: a prospective approach

Chichilnisky, Graciela; Gallopin, G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Current changes in Latin America include the abandonment of the economic pattern of import substitution, a growing opening of the national economies, a continental wave of political democratization, an apparent economic recovery from the "lost decade" (the 1980s), a growing social polarization,...

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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh

Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...

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Domestic climate policies and the WTO

Zhang, ZhongXiang; Assunção, Lucas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Experience with existing multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) shows that trade measures agreed to within the MEAs themselves may not necessarily lead to a dispute between parties. On the contrary, there is a great chance that disputes may arise from national measures undertaken to fulfil...

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