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Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways … adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis so far on actual delivery mechanisms to channel these resources at … the sub-national level, particularly to target the poor who are also often the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate …
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-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economy-climate … into climate-economy models or to link economy-climate models to land-use models. …
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Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...
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interference with the global climate. …
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The present stalemate in climate negotiations has led policy analysts and economists to explore the possible emergence … of alternative climate regimes. This paper explores the idea of replacing international cooperation on greenhouse gas … emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea – recently …
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Within the political, scientific and economic debate on climate change, the process of evaluating climate policies ex … to assess the relative performances of different climate policies, when long term economic, social and environmental … climate policies and is here presented through an application to a sample of eleven global climate policies, considered as …
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We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...
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) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First …, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield numerical results that do not support the conclusion that ambitious climate …
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emission reductions but cooperates on the development of new, climate friendly technologies that reduce the costs of abatement …
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cooperative climate agreement. Different incentive structures are discussed for those countries, namely the US, Russia and China …, that are most important in the climate negotiation process. Our analysis confirms the conjecture that, by appropriately … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …
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