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Carbon pricing under binding political constraints

Jenkins, Jesse D.; Karplus, Valerie J. - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016

The economic prescription for climate change is clear: price carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions to internalize climate damages. In practice, a variety of political economy constraints prevent the introduction of a carbon price equal to the full social cost of emissions. This...

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Climate justice for persons with disability : few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much

Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023

Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under … climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is …

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Taxing extractive resources in the transition to a low-carbon future

Dietsche, Evelyn - 2020

This paper explores the potential impacts of the transition to a low-carbon future for the taxation of extractive resources. The global debate on climate change has firmly moved on from the question of whether countries ought to shift towards such a future to that of how they are going to...

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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid

Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013

In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...

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Gender and distributional preferences : experimental evidence from India

Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect allocations in a modified dictator game where both parties perform a cognitive task and the resulting pie to be split is the sum of both parties' earnings. Our key results are...

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Communication matters : sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels

Oppel, Annalena - 2023

This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality, such as the Gini coefficient, fall short of...

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Transitional justice and aid

Hellsten, Sirkku - 2012

concept of "transitional justice" (TJ). The paper analyses how the ambiguous, evolving and expanding nature of the concept of …) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn … mainly from Africa where many TJ processes and mechanisms are currently taking place. -- transitional justice ; post …

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The challenges of global environmental change for urban Africa

Simon, David - 2010

Cities - especially those with substantial poor populations - will face increasingly severe challenges in tackling the impacts of global environmental change (GEC). As economic dynamos and increasingly important population concentrations, cities both contribute substantially, and often are very...

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Changes in climatic factors and malaria in Uganda

Yawe, Bruno L. - 2014

The study examines the relationship between climatic factors and reported malaria cases using data from 12 districts in Uganda over the period 2000-2011. A panel dataset comprising temperature, temperature standard deviation; minimum humidity; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation...

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Foreign aid and climate change policy : what can('t) the data tell us?

Kono, Daniel Y.; Montinola, Gabriella R. - 2019

Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little evidence that climate aid actually encourages...

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