The Netherlands has ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the future - to cut them by 49 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 95 percent by 2050. These targets and the likely new EU-wide targets under the recent EU Green Deal entail a rapid acceleration in decarbonization....

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SOME BACKGROUND ON GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE -- III. MODELING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE -- IV. HOW WILL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AFFECT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY? -- V. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- Appendix: The...

Abstract In this paper we ask whether countries can influence their exposure to changes in global financial conditions. Specifically, we show that even though we can model cross-country capital flows via a global factor that closely tracks changes in global financial conditions, there is a large...

This paper provides estimates of output multipliers for spending in clean energy and biodiversity conservation, as well as for spending on non-ecofriendly energy and land use activities. Using a new international dataset, we find that every dollar spent on key carbon-neutral or carbon-sink...