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annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have …
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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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sizeable and should motivate for action in terms of both mitigation and consideration and funding of potential adaptation …
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change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded policy-driven adaptation investments Ethiopia's GDP in the 2040s … will be up to 10 percent below the counterfactual no-climate change baseline. Suitably scaled adaptation measures could … change. -- CGE analysis ; global warming ; growth ; adaptation costs ; development …
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liberalization welfare impacts under climate change, and its ability to provide mitigation and/or adaptation to potential losses. Our …
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Maroc Vert, helps in agricultural adaptation to climate change and uncertainty. We develop a regionalized Morocco Computable … 2050, and introduced with respect to a 2003 baseline. With no adaptation, GDP impacts range from -3.1 per cent (worst … contraction in economic aggregates. Accounting for the adaptation measures in the Plan Maroc Vert, the GDP impacts from climate …
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This paper hypothesizes that adaptation to climate change is influenced by the gender of the decision maker of the … household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male …-headed households are examined. A multinomial logit model is used to examine factors determining adaptation choices by gender. Findings …
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The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The study utilizes a quantitative approach for...
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Developed as well as developing countries will have to increase their ambition relative to their stated Nationally Determined Contributions to limit global temperature increases to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. South Africa's Nationally Determined Contribution, in line with national policy,...
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This paper identifies eight political economy factors that influenced governments' policy choices during the most recent global food price crisis. To explain the variety of responses and the policy failures, a framework is proposed that locates policies along the twin dimensions of unitary vs....
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