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An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Climate Variables on National Level Economic Growth
Brown, Casey - 2017
The influence of climate on economic growth is a topic of growing interest. Few studies have investigated the potential role that climate hazards and their cumulative effects have on the growth prospects for a country. Due to the relatively stationary spatial patterns of global climate, some...
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Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, And"Development Traps"
Golub, Alexander - 2017
simple specification is used in which the economy can produce a single homogeneous consumption good with two different … increasing returns, then the economy may linger at a low level of income indefinitely or it may achieve greater progress but then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973050
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How Might Climate Change Affect Economic Growth in Developing Countries? A Review of the Growth Literature With a Climate Lens
Lecocq, Franck - 2016
This paper reviews the empirical and theoretical literature on economic growth to examine how the four components of the climate change bill, namely mitigation, proactive (ex ante) adaptation, reactive (ex post) adaptation, and ultimate damages of climate change affect growth, especially in...
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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...
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Macro-Financial Aspects of Climate Change
Feyen, Erik H.B. - 2020
impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward a resilient low-carbon economy pose significant challenges for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844088
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Environment and Development : Penalized Non-Parametric Inference of Global Trends in Deforestation, Pollution and Carbon
Andree, Bo Pieter Johannes - 2019
This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … efficiency alone is not sufficient to offset the effects of growth in scale. Instead, structural change in the economy shapes … immediate and sustained global efforts are required to mitigate forest loss, improve air quality, and shift the global economy …
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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 Apriliyanto - 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...
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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/10012865465
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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the Gtap9 Database
Roson, Roberto - 2017
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 Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries
Hallegatte, S. - 2017
This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its …
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