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Adaptation Measures in the EU : Policies, Costs, and Economic Assessment ('Climate Proofing' of Key EU Policies)

Altvater, Susanne - 2014

The aim of this report is to ascertain priority concerns for further climate proofing action through opposing current EU efforts to different threats, and suggest complementary options (cf. chapter 3) for the following four sectors: (1) Energy, (2) Transport infrastructure, (3) Urban areas, and...

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A Global Migration Framework Under Water : How Can the International Community Protect Climate Refugees?

Sussman, Caitlan M. - 2023

Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...

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Free Lunch or Cheap Fix? : The Emissions Trading Idea and the Climate Change Convention

Driesen, David M. - 2014

Emissions trading has become a key component of U.S. environmental legal regimes. The U.S. has successfully lobbied to make international environmental benefit trading, an expanded form of emissions trading, a part of international efforts to address the threat of global climate change through...

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Gaps, Inexperience, Inconsistencies, and Overlaps : Crisis in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Plants and Animals

Mandel, Gregory N. - 2012

The regulation of genetically modified products pursuant to statutes enacted decades prior to the advent of … regulation unnecessarily expose society and the environment to the downside risks of biotechnology and introduce numerous … inefficiencies into the regulatory system. These risks and inefficiencies include gaps in regulation, duplicative and inconsistent …

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Are We Adapting to Climate Change?

Burke, Marshall; Zahid, Mustafa; Martins, Mariana C. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study whether the sensitivity of economic, health, and livelihood outcomes to climate extremes has declined over the last half century, consistent with adaptation. Understanding whether such adaptation is already occurring is central to anticipating future climate damages, to calibrating the...

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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean 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...

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The final solutions for Common Agricultural Policy in years 2014-2020 : step towards environmental sustainability or business as usual?

Kociszewski, Karol - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 1, pp. 9-20

The Paper's goal is to assess the most important changes in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for years 2014-2020 in the context of its potential influence on environmental pressure of agriculture. The final solutions of that policy reform were discussed in relation to main...

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The EU as catalytic state? : rethinking European climate and energy governance

Prontera, Andrea; Quitzow, Rainer - In: New political economy 27 (2022) 3, pp. 517-531

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Institutional convergence in Europe

Schönfelder, Nina; Wagner, Helmut - 2018

product market and business regulation- not in the area of governance. In fact, the authors show evidence for β-divergence in … indicators are employed to measure institutional development: first, the Worldwide Governance Indicators, and second, the product … market regulation indicator of the OECD and the Doing Business distance to frontier indicator of the World Bank. The authors …

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Institutional convergence in Europe

Schönfelder, Nina; Wagner, Helmut - 2019

product market and business regulation—not in the area of governance. In fact, the authors show evidence for β-divergence in … indicators are employed to measure institutional development: first, the Worldwide Governance Indicators, and second, the product … market regulation indicator of the OECD and the Doing Business distance to frontier indicator of the World Bank. The authors …

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