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Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and … consumption. Our results indicate that an energy poverty eradication policy to be met by 2030 would increase global final energy … poverty would produce 16-131 GtCO2 over the 21st century and contribute at most 0.1C of additional warming. -- Energy Poverty …
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This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...
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The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the analysis on the dimension of adaptive capacity, i.e. the...
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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In an impure public good model we analyze the effects of CDM transfers on poverty as well as on the global climate …
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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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Population movements will help people facing the impact of climate change. However, the resulting large scale displacements may also produce security risks for receiving areas. The objective of this paper is to empirically estimate if the inflows of climate-induced migrants increase the risk of...
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these sectors while sectors such as agriculture, natural resource management, disaster resilience, etc., have not attracted …
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