Klima- und wetterbedingte Extremereignisse unterbrechen immer wieder unseren Alltag. Sie gefährden die menschliche Gesundheit sowie Sicherheit und Wohlstand. Mit fortschreitendem Klimawandel ändern sich Häufigkeit und Intensität dieser Wetterextreme, mit nachteiligen ökonomischen und...

This volume challenges global leaders and citizenry to do more in order to resource the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 interwoven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Starting from the concept ‘we cannot manage what we cannot measure’, the...

In Part II of this article, the author discusses and analyses the various emissions trading schemes that have emerged around the world, with the imprimatur of the Kyoto Protocol, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The emissions trading schemes are analysed against a theoretical model for...

In this article, the author draws attention to the fact that the climate change net is being drawn increasingly tighter around the public and private sectors in order to chase down their climate change footprint. Set in the context of the Stern Review Report and the 2007 IPCC Reports, the author...

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the publicprivate sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...