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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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sizeable and should motivate for action in terms of both mitigation and consideration and funding of potential adaptation …
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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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Climate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies investigate whether households send a migrant after...
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I study the effect of the 2019-21 desert locust outbreak on the intention to migrate among rural households and individuals in Yemen, as an illustration of the human mobility impacts of climate change-related shocks in a complex emergency setting. Using the first systematic household survey...
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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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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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We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
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