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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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Economic Implications of Moving Toward Global Convergence on Emission Intensities

Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017

One key contentious issue in climate change negotiations is the huge difference in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita between more advanced industrialized countries and other nations. This paper analyzes the costs of reducing this gap. Simulations using a global computable general...

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Will Markets Direct Investments Under the Kyoto Protocol?

Larson, Donald F. - 2016

Under the Kyoto Protocol, countries can meet treaty obligations by investing in projects that reduce or sequester greenhouse gases elsewhere. Prior to ratification, treaty participants agreed to launch country-based pilot projects, referred to collectively as Activities Implemented Jointly...

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Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace

Gates, Scott - 2016

No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This … reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict justice efforts (trials, purges, reparation to victims, and truth … commissions) as well as processes associated with abstaining from post-conflict justice (amnesty and exile). It investigates the …

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Measuring Equity in Health Care Financing - Reflections on (and Alternatives to) the World Health Organization's Fairness of Financing Index

Wagstaff, Adam - 2017

In its latest World Health Report, The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that a key dimension of a health system …

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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

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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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...

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Assessment of Net Mitigation in the Context of International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Mechanisms

Strand, Jon - 2017

This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...

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