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We study the United Nations Organization's Kyoto Protocol nations to address two questions. First of all, what are the environmental production efficiency rankings of these nations? Secondly, is there a relationship between a nation's ratification status and its environmental production...
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business … impacts, but that window is closing: the world has less than a decade to change course. Actions taken — or not taken — in the … years ahead will have a profound bearing on the future course of human development. The world lacks neither the financial …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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We study the impact of climatic conditions on self-reported financial and subjective wellbeing indicators. To inform the climate policy debate, we conduct a unique multi-domain analysis of how monthly weather measurements (sunshine, rainfall, temperature anomaly) relate to financial evaluators...
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This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget, and how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into a downward spiral of deprivation.
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