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The impact of changing climate on children's nutritional status in Bangladesh
Hanifi, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; … - 2021
varying rainfall jointly. Leveraging a saturated fixed-effects model that controls for annual trends and location …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non … also matters. Possible explanations for our findings include consequences of varying heat, humidity, and rainfall on the …
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Soil aridification, precipitations, and infant health : evidence from Africa
Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2023 - This version: May 5, 2023
underweight at birth. In addition, we show how the aridity measure in this study reduces the effect of rainfall on child wellbeing …
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Climate change and risk scenario in Bangladesh
Rahman, Mohammad Chhiddikur; Rahaman, Md Shajedur; … - In: Asia-Pacific journal of regional science 7 (2023) 2, pp. 381-404
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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector
Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013
Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations - constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena are opening new...
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Connotation of Minor Millet Biodiversity and Indirect Payments in Tribal Homesteads in the Backdrop of Climate Change
Aravindakshan, Sreejith - 2014
Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
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Trading Off Global Fuel Supply, CO2 Emissions and Sustainable Development
Wagner, Liam - 2016
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Paris 2015) reached an international agreement to keep the rise in global average temperature ‘well below 2°C' and to ‘aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C'. These reductions will have to be made in the face of rising global energy demand....
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Zeroing Out Climate Change : A ‘Hard Look’ at Trump’s Social Cost of Carbon
Canning, Doyle - 2018
President Donald Trump has referred to climate change as a “hoax,” and in March 2017 issued Executive Order No. 13783, Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth. Section 5 of this Order directs federal agencies to discontinue use of the social cost of carbon (SCC), a protocol...
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Climate Change Law and Brazil : Climate Litigation As the Ultimate Ratio?
Armada, Charles Alexandre Souza - 2020
The challenges posed by global warming require commitment and effective action from all countries. The hopes placed on the Paris Agreement have not yet materialized and, in many situations, due to the State's inaction or omission. As a result, this situation has led to demands by nationals...
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Comparative analysis of climate and topography in Chaco and Oriental, Paraguay
Lemenkova, Polina - 2021
Abstract [EN]The article reports the issues corresponding to the climate variability and possibility of droughts in spatially distinct regions of Paraguay, the Chaco and the Oriental (Paraná Basin). Based on the GMT scripting approach and high-resolution datasets from the TerraClimate and...
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