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Environmental and climate finance in a new world: How past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley C.; Peratsakis, … - 2013
natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333707
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Foreign aid, green cities and buildings
Kablan, Sandrine - 2013
This paper attempts, first, to assess foreign aid effectiveness in fostering green city procedures in developing countries. For this purpose, we rely on the following aid effectiveness criteria: national ownership; harmonization; alignment and mutual accountability; and results management. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319853
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Border adjustment mechanisms: Elements for economic, legal, and political analysis
Bueb, Julien; Richieri Hanania, Lilian; Le Clézio, Alice - 2016
This paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation. It highlights economic, legal, and political difficulties raised by border carbon adjustments. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532338
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Approaches to supporting local and community development: The view from Zambia
Mondoloka, Angel - 2017
Mining is the largest sector of the Zambian economy but, as has been the case elsewhere, the relationship between mining companies and their host communities has been fractious, without a clear path towards sustainability. The severe social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654034
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Aid and the environment: The case of Kenya
Nyangena, Wilfred - 2013
We investigate allocations of foreign aid by donors to the environment sector in Kenya covering the period 2001-12. Our … public debt. Allocations to environment have not been priority for donors in spite of several policy statements. Further, aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333686
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Aid and environment in Burkina Faso
Bambio, Yiriyibin - 2013
. The environment literature highlights important environment issues in air, land and water, including deforestation … Burkina Faso's government and donors in environment and development areas, acknowledge the urgent need of facing these … challenges efficiently, the first of which seems to be deciding how to finance the environment strategies. Of the €8 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333706
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Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly? A reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate change
Lebdioui, Amir - 2021
Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424182
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Producing biofuels in low-income countries: An integrated environmental and economic assessment for Tanzania
Branca, Giacomo; Felix, Erika; Maltsoglou, Irini; … - 2014
This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343210
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Implications of climate change for Ghana's economy
Arndt, Channing; Asante, Felix; Thurlow, James - 2014
Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country's dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by detailed sector studies, to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343212
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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests: Opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector
Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013
Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations - constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena are opening new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319788