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This study on harnessing international trade to support climate change objectives assesses the following: 1) What are the main policy prescriptions for reducing greenhouse gases that are employed by OECD countries and how do they impact the competitiveness of their energy-intensive industries?...
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pathways to transform weather, water, and climate services in the three case study countries. In Jamaica, the analysis of the … data collected revealed seven themes regarding critical pathways to continue to transform weather, water, and climate …
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structured interviews and literature review, were used to identify promising pathways to continue to transform weather, water … themes regarding critical pathways to transform weather, water, and climate services in the country. These are: harmonizing …
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existing World Trade Organization (WTO) principles. The chapter further identifies areas where priorities for proactive policy …
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Index insurance, such as weather indexing, addresses other inherent problems in insurance by using an indicator that is …, municipal governments in Mexico have used insurance to finance disaster contingency while the World Food Program has insured a …
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This report uses new measures of extreme weather and methodologies to gauge their welfare effects. A myriad of … methodological issues and data constraints plague empirical work on the effects of extreme weather events on human welfare. The … investment policies in fostering them; 3) capacity needs assessments; and 4) the human welfare effects of extreme weather events …
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Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. Situated in the delta of the Ganges …
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interviews and literature review, were used to identify promising pathways to transform weather, water, and climate services in … pathways to continue to transform weather, water, and climate services in the country. These are: improving data resources …
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"The authors determine how time delays affect international trade using newly collected World Bank data on the days it …-sensitive to time-insensitive agricultural goods by 6 percent. "--World Bank web site …
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