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Priority for the worse off and the social cost of carbon

Adler, Matthew D.; Anthoff, David; Bosetti, Valentina; … - 2016

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a monetary measure of the harms from carbon emission. Specifically, it is the reduction in current consumption that produces a loss in social welfare equivalent to that caused by the emission of a ton of CO2. The standard approach is to calculate the SCC using...

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Climate change policy under polar amplification

Brock, William A.; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2016

Polar amplification is an established scientific fact which has been associated with the surface albedo feedback and to heat and moisture transport from the Equator to the Poles. In this paper we unify a two-box climate model, which allows for heat and moisture transport from the southern region...

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Optimal adaptation and mitigation to climate change in small environmental economies

Chisari, Omar O.; Galiani, Sebastián; Miller, Sebastián - 2013

This paper compares the optimal dynamic choices between policies of mitigation and adaptation for three economies …: Brazil, Chile and the United States. The focus is on the optimal role of mitigation and adaptation for “environmentally small … up spending less on mitigation owing to their impoverishment as a result of negative climate shocks. Third, higher …

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Regional carbon budgets : do they matter for climate policy?

Tavoni, Massimo; Vuuren, Detlef P. van - 2015

Carbon budgets have emerged as a robust metric of warming, but little is known about the usefulness of regional carbon budgets as indicators of policy. This article explores the potential of regional carbon budgets to inform climate policy. Using the large database of scenarios from IPCC AR5...

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Development, climate change adaptation, and maladaptation : some econometric evidence

Bosello, Francesco; Dasgupta, Shouro - 2015

This paper examines the determinants of climate related disasters and attempts to estimate the presence of adaptive capacity in terms of per capita income and population density elasticities. We find evidence of adaptive capacity in a “weak” form both in terms of income and population...

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The migration response to increasing temperatures

Cattaneo, Cristina; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze...

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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions : an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

Lachaud, Michée Arnold; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Ludena, … - 2015

This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries, while also providing comparisons with several regions of the world. Climatic variability is introduced in Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) models by...

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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 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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When starting with the most expensive option makes sense : optimal timing, cost and sectoral allocation of abatement investment

Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Meunier, Guy; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2018

This paper finds that it is optimal to start a long-term emission-reduction strategy with significant short-term abatement investment, even if the optimal carbon price starts low and grows progressively over time. Moreover, optimal marginal abatement investment costs differ across sectors of the...

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Burden of climate change on malaria mortality

Dasgupta, Shouro - 2017

In 2015, an estimated 429,000 deaths and 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, while 70% of the deaths occurred in children under five years old. Changes in climatic exposure such as temperature and precipitation makes malaria one of the most climate sensitive outcomes. Using a global...

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