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Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...
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viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change is a private good, benefiting only the country or the individual that …We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the … potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be …
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Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option …. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a … sustainable livelihood strategy with decades of use in several climate zones and under a wide range of specific local conditions …
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This paper is based on a World Bank–sponsored effort to develop a global estimate of adaptation costs, considering the … implications of global climate change for industrial forestry. It focuses on the anticipated impacts of climate change on forests … well as estimates and projections of the impacts of climate change on forests and forestry in various regions and countries …
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magnified by climate perturbations as well as shorter-term and, in some cases, ongoing changes in the political and regulatory …
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We empirically analyze the formation of international environmental agreements within a political economy framework. We develop a theoretical model of state dependent net benefits of ratification predicting (i) strategic behavior with respect to the timing of ratification and (ii) that...
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This paper discusses the interplay between the choice of the discount rate, greenhouse gas mitigation and endogenous technological change. Neglecting the issue of uncertainty it is shown that the green golden rule stock of atmospheric carbon is uniquely determined, but is not affected by...
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Mitigation and adaptation are the most important strategies in combating global climate change. It is expected that in … countries in adapting to climate change. Within the framework of a non-cooperative Nash game we analyze, whether funding … adaptation is incentive compatible in the sense that it stipulates mitigation. In particular it is the aim of this paper to …
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economies. Regarding the recent debate on climate change, we conclude that it is indispensable to explicitly consider the …
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There is an ongoing discussion especially among political scientists and economists whether and how climate variability … long-term changes in Sub-Saharan Africa and find that climate (change) significantly affects agricultural output, to some …
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