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Burden of disease and climate interactions : an illustrative study of Surat City, India
Goldar, Amrita; Tewari, Meenu; Sen, Flavy - 2019
The rising burden of disease counts as one of the most salient concerns of a warming climate. These risks are … health. Using past data on disease cases, climate trajectories (temperature, precipitation) malarial risk is projected. This …. If viewed from a different angle, this estimated monetized value of health risk is also the disease burden that could be …
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The impact of ICT on vegetable farmers in Honduras
Pineda Burgos, Allan Edgardo; Agüero Rodríguez, Marco … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010217620
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The health impacts of severe climate shocks in Colombia
Mata, Dolores de la; Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio G. - 2014
This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and malaria. The unexpectedly high variability of the 2010 rainfalls relative to previous periods and their regional heterogeneity are exploited as an identification strategy. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286264
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Pathways to deep decarbonization in Italy
Alloisio, Isabella; Antimiani, Alessandro; Borghesi, Simone - 2015
The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), an initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), aims to demonstrate how countries can transform their energy systems by 2050 in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342985
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Leadership and international climate cooperation
Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2013
Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226086
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European-led climate policy versus global mitigation action : implications on trade, technology, and energy
De Cian, Enrica; Keppo, Ilkka; Bollen, Johannes; … - 2014
This paper examines how changes in an international climate regime would affect the European decarbonization strategy and costs through the mechanisms of trade, technology, and innovation. We present the results from the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) model comparison study on European climate...
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The politics of market linkage : linking domestic climate policies with international political economy
Green, Jessica F.; Sterner, Thomas; Wagner, Gernot - 2014
After twenty years of global negotiations, the world is still far from a comprehensive climate agreement. The "top …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373734
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Beyond 2020 : strategies and costs for transforming the European energy system
Knopf, Brigitte; Chen, Yen-heng Henry; De Cian, Enrica; … - 2014
The Energy Modeling Forum 28 (EMF28) study systematically explores the energy system transition required to meet the European goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80% by 2050. The 80% scenario is compared to a reference case that aims to achieve a 40% GHG reduction target. The...
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Inequality and the social cost of carbon
Anthoff, David; Emmerling, Johannes - 2016
This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
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Advances and slowdowns in carbon capture and storage technology development
D'Aprile, Aurora - 2016
With the long term goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and "to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C", the Paris Agreement puts renewed attention on the portfolio of technologies needed to achieve consistent emission reductions...
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