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The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...
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Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of over 14,400 firms in 77 countries. We find a widespread...
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A growing fraction of companies globally have made commitments to reduce their carbon emissions by a certain date. While the companies that make commitments subsequently reduce their emissions, the effect on overall emissions of companies (including those that do not commit) has been small; the...
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Intensive agriculture and deep plowing resulted in top-soil erosion and dust storms during the 1930s. These effects have been shown to affect agricultural income and land values that persisted for years. Given the growing literature on the relevance of in-utero and early-life exposures, it is...
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emphasize spatial controls on human entry and use via Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). They cover 7.6% of world oceans and aim for …
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having experienced them for one month. We find that SC leads to a reduction in water use per shower by 9.4%, RTF by 28 …
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causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of … pollution as underlying contributors to contemporaneous biodiversity declines …
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concerns over the extent and rate of biodiversity loss have led to renewed interest in extinction outcomes and speculation …
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We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset … values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …
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