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The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...
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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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widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation … policies. Furthermore we also consider the interaction of the two strategies. Mitigation efforts of a single country trigger …
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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 … 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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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
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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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each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to …
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