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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228213
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388738
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058963
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Does rainfall matter for economic growth? : evidence from global sub-national data (1990-2014)
Damania, Richard; Desbureaux, Sébastien; Zaveri, Esha - 2019
Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051944
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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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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?
Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019
The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation measures included in the strategy. This assessment should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002701
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Transformational climate finance : donors' willingness to support deep and transformational greenhouse gas emissions reductions in lower-income countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241188
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Global investment costs for coastal defense through the 21st century : beyond the gap : how countries can afford the infrastructure they need while protecting the planet : backgrou...
Nicholls, Robert J.; Hinkel, Jochen; Lincke, Daniel; … - 2019
Sea-level rise threatens low-lying areas around the world's coasts with increased coastal flooding during storms. One … half of the world's coast is protected. The total defense costs are significantly higher than earlier estimates, amounting …
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Are driving forces of CO 2 emissions different across countries? : insights from identity and econometric analyses
Dong, Kangyin; Hochman, Gal; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2018
contributed to limit global carbon dioxide emissions at the current level; otherwise, the world's current carbon dioxide emissions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875226
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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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