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Climate change, agriculture and food security in Sahel
Yobom, Oudah - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321879
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN SAHEL: CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT CONTRIBUTION TO POVERTY REDUCTION
Constant, Labintan Adeniyi - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
strategy in the Sahel .Sahel is one of the most vulnerable areas in the world with lower HDI(0.2%) and have the highest poverty … rate (over 45% of the people live below the poverty line). The study was focused on 9 Sahel countries (Senegal, Mauritania …, Mali, Niger, Burkina-Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Soudan and Eritrea) and their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853537
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Rules vs. targets : climate treaties under uncertainty
Gersbach, Hans; Oberpriller, Quirin - 2012 - This version: April 2012
We demonstrate the advantages of a climate treaty based solely on rules for international permit markets when there is uncertainty about abatement costs and environmental damages. Such a ‘Rules Treaty’ comprises a scaling factor and a refunding rule. Each signatory can freely choose the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552905
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Investigation of the solar production and contribution in South Africa
Mulaudzi, Silas K.; Muchie, Mammo; Makhado, Rudzani - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 4 (2012) 4, pp. 233-254
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510382
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Decision frameworks and the investment in R&D
Baker, Erin; Olaleye, Olaitan; Reis, Lara Aleluia - 2015
In this paper we provide an overview of decision frameworks aimed at crafting an energy technology Research & Development portfolio, based on the results of three large expert elicitation studies and a large scale energy-economic model. We introduce importance sampling as a technique for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517699
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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517704
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The role of integrated assessment models in climate policy : a user's guide and assessment
Metcalf, Gilbert E.; Stock, James H. - 2015
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Global and regional impacts of the clean development mechanism
Wang, Shunli; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009
Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378304
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Pathways to deep decarbonization in Italy
Alloisio, Isabella; Antimiani, Alessandro; Borghesi, Simone - 2015
The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), an initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), aims to demonstrate how countries can transform their energy systems by 2050 in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342985
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What do we learn from public good games about voluntary climate action? : evidence from an artefactual field experiment
Goeschl, Timo; Kettner, Sara Elisa; Lohse, Johannes; … - 2015
Evidence from public good game experiments holds the promise of instructive and cost-effective insights to inform environmental policy-making, for example on climate change mitigation. To fulfill the promise, such evidence needs to demonstrate generalizability to the specific policy context....
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