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Consumption, Happiness, and Climate Change
Cohen, Mark A. - 2012
In this article, we explore the implications of this literature for understanding the relationship between climate change policies and consumption. We identify a number of ways in which accounting for the implications of the new happiness literature could lead to laws and policies that influence...
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Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries
Cappelli, Federica - 2024
The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical and empirical levels. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of changes in the full spectre of income distribution on consumptionbased CO2 emissions per capita. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516556
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The impact of climate on life satisfaction
Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2010
We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values … significantly lower levels of life satisfaction. This finding is robust to a wide variety of model specifications. Using our results … African countries, but modest gains for Northern Europe. -- Climate ; climate change ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey …
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The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2013
This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational equity, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which...
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How to measure carbon equity : Carbon Gini Index based on historical cumulative emission per capita
Teng, Fei; Jiankun, He; Xunzhang, Pan; Chi, Zhang - 2011
with the biggest gap between rich and poor in the world. The carbon equity should be an urgency and priority in the climate … provide a quantified indicator for measurement of carbon equity among different proposals. -- Climate Change ; Carbon Equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934651
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How to Measure Carbon Equity : Carbon Gini Index Based on Historical Cumulative Emission Per Capita
Fei, Teng - 2014
with the biggest gap between rich and poor in the world. The carbon equity should be an urgency and priority in the climate … provide a quantified indicator for measurement of carbon equity among different proposals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068260
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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations
Bluedorn, John C.; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...
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Bread of the Future : Climate Change, Agriculture and Food in Latin America (El Pan Del Futuro: Cambio Climático, Agricultura Y Alimentación En América Latina)
Maletta, Hector E. - 2014
Does predicted global warming imply more hunger in the future of Latin America? Climate projections prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are briefly presented, along with an analysis of existing estimates of their probable impact on agriculture and food...
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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty
van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
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Inequality and the social cost of carbon
Anthoff, David; Emmerling, Johannes - 2016
This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
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