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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

Havlík, Petr - 2017

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …

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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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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 …

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Environmental Reliance, Climate Exposure, and Vulnerability : A Cross-Section Analysis of Structural and Stochastic Poverty

Angelsen, Arild - 2017

This paper analyzes environmental reliance, poverty, and climate vulnerability among more than 7,300 households in forest adjacent communities in 24 developing countries. The data are from the detailed, quarterly income recording done by the Poverty Environment Network project. Observed income...

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Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations : Two Dimensions of Vulnerability

Buys, Piet - 2016

Using a comprehensive geo-referenced database of indicators relating to global change and energy, the paper assesses countries' likely attitudes with respect to international treaties that regulate carbon emissions. The authors distinguish between source and impact vulnerability and classify...

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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the Gtap9 Database

Roson, Roberto - 2017

estimated for each of the 140 countries and regions in the Global Trade Analysis Project 9 data set. To illustrate the salient …

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Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change : A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa

AASSOULI, Dalal - 2018

The climate change challenge and the growth of the Islamic finance industry, together with the increase in socially responsible investing, could position green sukuk as a key instrument for financing clean energy and resilient infrastructure projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency...

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Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, And"Development Traps"

Golub, Alexander - 2017

This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A simple specification is used in which the economy can...

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Sustainable and Smart Cities

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...

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Population, Poverty, and Climate Change

Das Gupta, Monica - 2017

countries are largely responsible for global warming, the brunt of the fallout will be borne by the developing world, in lower … agricultural output, poorer health, and more frequent natural disasters. Carbon emissions in the developed world have leveled off …, but are projected to rise rapidly in the developing world due to their economic growth and population growth -- the latter …

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