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Climate Change and the Caribbean: Areas of Intervention: Financing for the Caribbean Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit (ECC), Infrastructure and Environment Department (IN...
Alleng, Gerard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294058
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Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resources in the Caribbean Region
Charlery, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Presentation on climate change adaptation in the Caribbean for a capacity building workshop. Topics discussed include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673043
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Climate Change: A Research Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean
Chisari, Omar O.; Galiani, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This research agenda outlines pertinent issues needed to produce an informed assessment of the strategies and policies LAC and international organizations should adopt with respect to climate change. The report makes three contributions: i) identifying actions that could be valuable but have not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674069
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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development
Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772468
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From Coping with Natural Disasters in the Past to a Model of Future Optimal Adaptation
Bucher, Raphael; Guelden Sterzl, Jasmin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to gain insights from studying adaptation to natural disasters in the past in order to analyze … optimal adaptation in Switzerland in the future. Most adaptation measures already undertaken in Switzerland are so … measures to combat market damages in an ecient way. We come up with modeling adaptation as a cumulative stock in a computable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372563
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Tackling climate change through adaptation finance in the Least Developed Countries: Is the LDC Fund still fit for purpose?
Davis, Junior; Tan, Celine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on … source of LDC climate adaptation finance, is still fit for purpose? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693578
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Taking Action on Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2009
adaptation measures in IDB operations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672512
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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit
Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Soon, Willie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836045
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Brazil: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
Ludeña, Carlos E.; Netto, Maria - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
In order to understand the implications of GHG emissions reduction targets in the Brazilian economy it is important to understand the sector composition of these emissions in Brazil. According to the 2010 Second National Communications of Brazil to the UNFCCC, in 2005, the majority of Brazil's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737313
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Climate Change and Sustainability: A Newsletter of the Inter-American Development Bank: Vol. 1: November-December 2011
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011
a climate-resilient and low-carbon path. Our adaptation and mitigation work, therefore, continues to expand in depth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673547