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Human Development Report 2007/8. Fighting Climate Change : Human Solidarity in a Divided World
Watkins, Kevin - 2013
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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Climatic Conditions, Financial and Subjective Wellbeing Evaluations
Chrysanthou, Georgios Marios; Tzouvanas, Panagiotis - 2023
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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Weather-related home damage and subjective well-being
Gunby, Nicholas; Coupé, Tom - In: Environmental and resource economics 84 (2023) 2, pp. 409-438
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Human development report 2007/2008 : fighting climate change ; human solidarity in a divided world
2007
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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Government Choices in Innovation Funding (With Reference to Climate Change)
Sarnoff, Joshua D. - 2013
Huge amounts of money will soon be spent by governments and private entities to develop technology to reduce the costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to deploy new energy and transportation infrastructures. Incredibly, we still lack any good idea of the best means of providing...
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The impact of climate change and policies on productivity : A report of the ESCB Expert Group on productivity, innovation and technological changes
Anyfantaki, Sofia; Colciago, Andrea; De Mulder, Jan; … - 2024
The impact of climate change on European Union (EU) countries and regions is poised to exhibit considerable diversity, influenced by factors encompassing average temperature, sectoral composition, developmental stages, and adaptation endeavours. The transition towards a more climate-friendly...
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Fiddling as the World Burns : How Climate Change Urgently Requires a Paradigm Shift in the Permitting of Renewable Energy Projects
Thaler, Jeff - 2015
offshore wind power as a case study, this article demonstrates how, in an increasingly carbon-constrained world, our existing …
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The Real Drivers of Carbon Capture and Storage In China and Implications for Climate Policy
Morse, Richard K.; Rai, Varun; He, Gang - 2014
stabilization of the global climate. Coal is the world’s fastest growing fossil fuel. This trend presents a forceful case for the … calculation of CCS’s role in Chinese power generation. As the world approaches the end of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 and crafts a …
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Challenges and Trade-Offs in Corporate Innovation for Climate Change
Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans - 2014
The international debate on addressing global climate change increasingly points at the role that companies can play by using their innovative capacity. However, up till now companies have been rather cautious in taking decisive steps in facilitating an innovation-based transition towards a...
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Happiness in the tropics : climate variables and subjective wellbeing
Zapata, Oscar - In: Environment and development economics 27 (2022) 3, pp. 250-271
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