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Investing in Disaster Risk Management in an Uncertain Climate
McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2017
development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only … for disaster risk management investment decisions. Accounting for climate uncertainty is likely to shift the optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969536
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Investment Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty -- Application to Climate Change
Hallegatte, S. - 2017
, priorities, and world views, the presence of deep uncertainties further challenges the decision-making framework by questioning … is based on a set of interviews with decision-makers, in particular World Bank project leaders, and on a literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974999
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Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies : Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation
Macours, Karen - 2017
improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975269
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Do We Need a Zero Pure Time Preference or the Risk of Climate Catastrophes to Justify a 2c Global Warming Target?
Dumas, P. - 2017
This paper confronts the wide political support for the 2C objective of global increase in temperature, reaffirmed in Copenhagen, with the consistent set of hypotheses on which it relies. It explains why neither an almost zero pure time preference nor concerns about catastrophic damages in case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976418
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Do Intensity Targets Control Uncertainty Better than Quotas? Conditions, Calibrations, and Caveats
Marschinski, Robert - 2016
Among policy instruments to control future greenhouse gas emissions, well-calibrated general intensity targets are known to lead to lower uncertainty on the amount of abatement than emissions quotas (Jotzo and Pezzey 2004). The authors test whether this result holds in a broader framework, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747950
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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/10012833615
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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...
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891714
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894299
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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