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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the GTAP9 Database
Roson, Roberto - 2016
Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
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Assessing the Environmental Co-Benefits of Climate Change Actions
Hamilton, Kirk - 2010
proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy is built on three pillars: leveraging … summary of the external literature on co-benefits; section three gives review of examples from the World Bank portfolio …
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Labor market impacts and responses : the economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster
Hoang Trung Xuan; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen … - 2019
This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...
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Revised estimates of the impact of climate change on extreme poverty by 2030 : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper
Jafino, Bramka Arga; Walsh, Brian; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2020
Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in most scenarios. These results are commensurate with...
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Macro-financial aspects of climate change
Feyen, Erik; Utz, Robert; Zuccardi Huertas, Igor Esteban; … - 2020
This paper examines the interaction between macro-financial and climate-related risks. It brings together different strands of the literature on climate-related risks and how these relate to macro-financial management and risks. Physical impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward...
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Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement
Strand, Jon - 2019
This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...
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Turn Down the Heat : Confronting the New Climate Normal
2014
extremes considered highly unusual or unprecedented today would become the new climate normal-a world of increased risks and …, and reducing global inequality will be very challenging in a 2 Degree C world, but in a 4 Degree C world there is serious … felt today and the unavoidable consequences of a rapidly warming world. The benefits of strong, early action on climate …
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Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World : Climate Strategies for Fossil Fuel-Dependent Countries
Peszko, Grzegorz - 2020
This book is the first stocktaking of what the decarbonization of the world economy means for fossil fuel+ "dependent … and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World identifies multiple strategies that fossil fuel+ "dependent countries can pursue …
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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook
World Bank Group - 2016
-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …
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Financing Clean Energy : A Framework for Public-Private Partnerships to Address Climate Change
Wolfowitz, Paul - 2007
Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, discussed how to meet the rising demand for energy while reducing our …
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