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Toward a framework for implementation of climate change treaty through self-enforcing mechanisms

Mehra, Meeta; Mukherjee, Saptarshi; Dutta, Monica - 2012

well-being; second, climate change mitigation is a public good entailing that all the countries would stand to gain due to … mitigation action taken by a sub-group of one or more countries; and third, there exists no supra-national authority to enforce … pros and cons of the already proposed international cooperative mechanisms toward climate change mitigation and highlights …

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Conceptualizing urban adaptation to climate change : findings from an applied adaptation assessment framework

Johnson, Katie; Breil, Margaretha - 2012

challenging new issue for urban policy makers in both the developed and developing world. Further to climate mitigation strategies …

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Assessment of the effectiveness of blobal climate policies using coupled bottom-up and top-down models

Labriet, Maryse; Drouet, Laurent; Vielle, Marc; Loulou, … - 2015

In order to assess climate mitigation agreements, we propose an iterative procedure linking TIAM-WORLD, a global …, especially in terms of trade effects of climate policies on energy-intensive products. In climate mitigation scenarios, drastic …

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Carbon boards and transition risk: explicit and implicit exposure implications for total stock returns and dividend payouts

Mazzarano, Matteo; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; … - 2021

The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has considered climate change as a risk issue since 2010. Several emission disclosure initiatives exist aimed at informing investors about the financial risks associated with a zero or low carbon transition. Stricter regulations, particularly in a few...

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Climate variability, child labour and schooling : evidence on the intensive and extensive margin

Colmer, Jonathan - 2013 - First draft: June 2012

How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and...

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An overview of urban vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change in Central America and the Caribbean Region

Gencer, Ebru A. - 2013

Central America and the Caribbean is one of the most hazard-prone regions in the world. In addition, the region is heavily affected by poverty, unemployment, critical management of natural resources, and urban conglomeration in capital cities, especially in the Small Island Developing States,...

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Smart-grids and climate change : consumer adoption of smart energy behaviour ; a system dynamics approach to evaluate the mitigation potential

Ricci, Elena Claire - 2013

We build a system dynamics model to evaluate the potential dynamics of consumer adoption of "Smart Energy Behaviour". Within this term we include different levels of: i) shift in electricity consumption towards less costly-less polluting and congestioning hours; ii) the reduction of mainly...

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Climate change and adaptation : the case of Nigerian agriculture

Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - 2013

The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...

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Energy poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation : is there a trade off?

Chakravarty, Shoibal; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013

Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and policies have been proposed to deal with poor access to modern sources of energy in many developing countries. Given the large number of people lacking basic energy services, an...

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Climate policies : a burden or a gain?

Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2013

) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are …

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