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Long-term strategies for decarbonization in Latin America : learnings from actor-based insights into the drafting process

Calfucoy, Paulina; Torres Gunfaus, Marta; Fazekas, Andreas - 2022

Long-term Strategies for Decarbonization, termed long-term low emissions and development strategies (LT-LEDS) by the …

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Climate policies and nationally determined contributions : reconciling the needed ambition with the political economy

Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2017

emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major transformation of the economic system. This paper reviews the …-net emissions before the end of the century in a socially and politically-acceptable manner. To get the ambition right, policymakers … can use sectoral roadmaps with targets and indicators that track progress towards zero emissions (e.g. regarding renewable …

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Instrument choice and stranded assets in the transition to clean capital

Rozenberg, Julie; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2017 - This version: March 2017

To mitigate climate change, some governments opt for instruments focused on investment, like performance standards or feebates, instead of carbon prices. We compare these policies in a Ramsey model with clean and polluting capital, irreversible investment and a climate constraint. Alternative...

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Gestionando el riesgo : efectos de la gobernabilidad en las pérdidas humanas por desastres en América Latina y el Caribe

Guerrero Compeán, Roberto; Piedad Salazar, Lina; … - 2017

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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

reason, distinct from learning spillovers, is that reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires investment in long … avoided emissions, but also from the value of abatement capital in the future. The optimal leveled cost of conserved carbon …

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Intensity-based permit quotas and the business cycle : does flexibility pay off?

Kuuselaa, Olli-Pekka; Amacher, Gregory S.; Tsang, Kwok Ping - 2013

Tradable permit markets for carbon dioxide (C02) emissions respond to short-run fluctuations in economic activity. To … achieve the same steady-state emissions reduction target of 20 percent, which is similar to the current policy proposals, and …

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Disasters and loss of life : new evidence on the effect of disaster risk management governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Guerrero Compeán, Roberto; Lacambra Ayuso, Sergio - 2020

This study provides new empirical evidence on the effect of improving the conditions in disaster risk management (DRM) governance in terms of human losses resulting from disaster events. To measure governance in disaster risk management, we use the Index of Governance and Public Policy in...

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Estrategias climáticas de largo plazo en América Latina : ¿qué podemos aprender desde la voz de los actores que han participado en su formulación?

Calfucoy, Paulina; Torres Gunfaus, Marta; Fazekas, Andreas - 2022

Long-term Strategies for Decarbonization, termed long-term low emissions and development strategies (LT-LEDS) by the …

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Exporting and environmental performance : where you export matters

Blyde, Juan S.; Ramírez, Mayra A. - 2022

Empirical analyses that rely on micro-level panel data have found that exporters are generally less pollutant than non-exporters. While alternative explanations have been proposed, firm level data has not been used to examine the role of destination markets behind the relationship between...

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Are environmental taxes affected by legislatures` ideological positions?

Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio - 2013

Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...

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