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This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...
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We show that adaptive measures undertaken by countries in the face of climate change, apart from directly reducing the damage caused by climate change, may also indirectly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the stable size of international agreements on emission reductions....
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there is a trade-off between climate policy and economic development and/or social cohesion. This is done by using a new … indicators. The FEEM SI index is built into a recursive-dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the world economy … sustainability improves at the regional and world level thanks to the GHG emission reductions achieved through climate policy …
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The paper analyses the synergies and trade-offs between emission reduction policies and sustainable development …
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implemented, such measures could disturb the world trade order and trigger a trade war. Because of these potentially far …To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap-and-trade … regime are the most concrete unilateral trade measure put forward to level the carbon playing field. If improperly …
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Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...
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Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and policies have been proposed to deal with poor access to modern sources of energy in many developing countries. Given the large number of people lacking basic energy services, an...
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Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focused on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis...
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The climate-trade nexus gains increasing attention as governments are taking great efforts to forge a post-2012 climate … change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This raises the issues of the scope of trade-related measures and of when and … how they could be used. This paper discusses how far trade-related measures should be incorporated in that context …
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This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...
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