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While the global economy continues to grow, ecosystem services tend to stagnate or decline. Economic theory has shown how such shifts in relative scarcities can be reflected in project appraisal and environmental-economic accounting, but empirical evidence has been sparse to put theory into...
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. Furlough policies are successful in reducing infections and saving lives. Firms delay and weaken the fight against infections …
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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policies. Furthermore we also consider the interaction of the two strategies. Mitigation efforts of a single country trigger … widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast …
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In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts …. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more … distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with majority voting, we analyze how the choices of mitigation and adaptation are …
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mitigation. We consider, in a general equilibrium overlapping generations (OLG) model with environmental externalities, a … income in pollution mitigation in exchange for a transfer to their old-age capital income paid by the next generation. We … minimum level of income and we characterize the set of Pareto-improving mitigation-transfer combinations. Nash bargaining …
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preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … of policies on mortality and on the productive capacity of the country. Thanks to the Epstein-Zin specification of … compare the miti-gation efforts predicted by the model with those of the recent literature and we study the optimal prevention-mitigation …
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intervention depends critically on the policy externality of different domestic climate policies. …
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channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a vital role in driving effective climate change mitigation and … document the existing evidence on the impacts of climate change damages, and the effects of climate change mitigation and … of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also …
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This paper highlights the severity of China's AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD provisions. Case studies on RTAs give precedents in...
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