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Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of hurricane harvey
Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021
-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change attribution science paired with hydrological flood models to estimate climate … change-attributed flood depths and damages during Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas. We then combine this information …
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Fifty years of U.S. natural disaster insurance policy
Marcoux, Kendra; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2023
of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …
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What role for electric vehicles in the decarbonization of the car transport sector in Europe?
Littlejohn, Christina; Proost, Stef - 2019
The transport sector is the only sector where carbon emissions continue to grow. This has led policy makers to propose ambitious policies to reduce emissions in the car sector, in particular fuel efficiency standards, portfolio mandates for Electric Vehicles and purchase taxes or subsidies. A...
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The social value of predicting hurricanes
Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - 2022
Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of their impact linked to the accuracy of their forecasts. In this paper, we estimate the economic impacts of the official hurricane forecasts in the US and develop a new approach for measuring the...
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Reconsidering climate mitigation policy in the UK
Arregui, Nicolas; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2021
The UK has pledged to cut greenhouse gases 68 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, to be emissions neutral by 2050, and to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Much progress has been made, but fully achieving these ambitious objectives with the current policy framework will be...
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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
Millner, Antony - 2013
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to "fat-tailed" risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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Cities and the sea level
Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021
coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable rise in the share of coastal housing built on flood-prone land …
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Insuring peace : index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...
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Carbon tax burdens on low-income households : a reason for delaying climate policy
Parry, Ian W. H. - 2015
This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...
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Global demographic change and climate policies
Gerlagh, Reyer; Jaimes, Richard; Motavasseli, Ali - 2017
Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital...
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