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If the threshold that triggers climate catastrophe is known with certainty, and the benefits of avoiding catastrophe … net benefits of avoiding catastrophe are lower, treaties typically fail to help countries cooperate to avoid catastrophe …, sustaining only modest cuts in emissions. These results are unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of catastrophe. By …
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” The Framework Convention thus...
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324910
This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change … outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple impacts of climate change and the importance of spatial and temporal … variation in these impacts. The study focused in particular on the potential impacts of climate change on the water supply …
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Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...
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considered as a unique scaled down model to assess the severity of potential climate change impacts on coastal zones. The paper … impact assessments in order to provide a complete picture of potential impacts and also to identify possible response … measures. Major impacts such as increased erosion, intensification of floods, saltwater intrusion and loss of habitat will be …
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Agricultural food production in China is deeply vulnerable to extreme droughts. Although there are many studies to evaluate this issue from different aspects, comprehensive assessments with full consideration of climate change, crop rotations, irrigation effects, and socioeconomic factors in...
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In this paper, the economic value of the impacts of climate change is assessed for different Italian economic sectors … and regions. Sectoral and regional impacts are then aggregated to provide a macroeconomic estimate of variations in GDP …
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The starting point for this study was the consideration of future climate change scenarios and their uncertainties. The paper presents the global projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and compares them with regional scenarios...
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