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The mismatch between actions to combat climate change, which are based on voluntary national initiatives of limited effort, and the recognition of the importance of global warming is growing. Climate engineering via solar radiation management has been proposed as a possible complement to...
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Long-term Strategies for Decarbonization, termed long-term low emissions and development strategies (LT-LEDS) by the …
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The rising burden of disease counts as one of the most salient concerns of a warming climate. These risks are especially serious in populous, rapidly growing urban landscapes of low-income, tropical countries. Surat, located on the banks of the River Tapi, has temperature and humidity patterns...
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In this work we update the regionalization and the calibration of the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE) in its 1999 version developed by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), with a focus on the Mediterranean countries. Our aim is to assess the impact of climate change...
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This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of inequality and CO2 emissions using panel data on 156 …-distribution decreases or does not affect the carbon emissions of the biggest global polluters. Redistribution, on the other hand, exhibits … the reverse pattern. Moreover, we differentiate in this analysis between production-based and consumption-based emissions …
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The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical … distribution on consumptionbased CO2 emissions per capita. To do so, we estimate a dynamic difference-GMM model and a dynamic … analysis highlights how different income classes contribute very differently to consumption-based CO2 emissions. In addition …
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needed to decrease emissions and keep temperature change within 2°C by the end of this century. Our results are embedded in a …
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This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...
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To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap … emissions allowances corresponding to the embedded carbon contents in their goods from countries that have not takenclimate ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, the paperargues that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO …
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agreement, no one would disagree that a U.S. commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions is essential to such a global pact …. However, despite U.S. president Obama's recent announcement to push for a commitment to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by … 17% by 2020, in reality it is questionable whether U.S. Congress will agree to specific emissions cuts, although they are …
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