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evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework … productivity shocks from climate change have a modest effect on global land use, such shocks combined with rapid growth in energy …
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fuel taxation and a renewable energy mandate financed through increased electricity prices, have been considered to attract … investment in renewable energy. The study shows that meeting the renewable target would achieve up to 15 percent reduction of … meet the renewable energy target in Morocco, as the former would cause a lower loss in economic welfare and a larger …
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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 projects. Expansion of a green sukuk market could promote environment …
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Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased...
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labor productivity, human health, tourism flows, and households' energy demand. All parameters of the damage functions are …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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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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The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and socioeconomic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development in the absence of climate change in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty...
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People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as floods and droughts. Previous studies in local contexts have shown that poor people are also often overrepresented in hazard-prone areas. However, systematic evidence across...
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burden of heat stress experienced by much of the world?s population in the coming decades. What will the distributional …
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