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secondary economic effects in stabilizing climate during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, with … the European domestic portfolio of a 2020-20 and 2020-30 climate stabilization policy. Afforestation and land use are … the cost of a 20% emissions reduction without afforestation. The introduction of these alternatives for mitigating climate …
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Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at … and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for greenhouse gas emission reductions. We supplement a global climate … total costs of the climate policy by an estimated 10-25% depending on which tropical countries participate and whether the …
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. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An … study. Data on the climate, beach length and indicators of cultural, natural resource and economic attractiveness of the … destination countries are used in the regression analysis. Optimal climate values were calculated and a climate index was used to …
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim … that a 1êC increase in global average temperatures would harm both the level and growth capacities of relatively poor …
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This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE … subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by …, climate change will ultimately lead to a welfare loss, unevenly spread across regions. …
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With large shares in global trade and carbon emissions, China's international trade is supposed to be significantly affected by the proposed carbon-based border tax adjustments (BTAs). This paper examines the impacts of BTAs imposed by the USA and EU on China's international trade, based on a...
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Putting a price on carbon is considered a crucial step for China's endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China's grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and low-carbon cities in six provinces and thirty-six cities,...
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The Chinese central government has approved the seven pilot carbon trading schemes. These seven pilot regions are deliberately selected to be at varying stages of development and are given considerable leeway to design their own schemes. These pilot trading schemes have features in common, but...
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As the first global carbon fund, the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) aims to catalyze the market for project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions while promoting sustainable development and offering a learning-by-doing opportunity to its stakeholders. Since the inception in 2000,...
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China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change … rising oil imports and international pressure on it to exhibit greater ambition in fighting global climate change have …
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