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The economic performance of hydropower dams supported by the World Bank Group, 1975-2015
Baurzhan, Saule; Jenkins, Glenn P.; … - 2021
dams are among the main sources for producing electricity and the largest renewable source for power generation throughout … the world. Hydropower dams are often a lower-cost option for power generation in Clean Energy Transition for addressing … global climate change. Despite its conspicuous aspects, constructing hydropower dams has been controversial. Considering the …
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The economic performance of hydropower dams supported by the World Bank Group : 1975-2015
Baurzhan, Saule; Jenkins, Glenn P.; … - 2021
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Searching for a mobilizing narrative on climate change
Jerneck, Anne - In: The journal of environment & development : a review of … 23 (2014) 1, pp. 15-40
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GDP-related emission targets weaknesses : the case of Argentina
Conte Grand, Mariana - 2016
GDP linked targets have the potential to favor green growth and avoid "hot air" in uncertain backgrounds, like those of many developing economies. Even if they are not a guarantee of emissions reduction as required by the 2 degree Celsius Copenhagen goal because emissions' intensity can decrease...
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Climate finance towards vulnerable countries : evidence from the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Syed, Mahbubur Rahman; Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed - In: International journal of green economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 199-214
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Global and regional impacts of the clean development 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 political economy of multilateral aid funds
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2016
In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...
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Climate finance by multinational development banks : with special attention to Europe
Bábosik, Mária - In: Athens journal of business & economics : AJBE 5 (2019) 4, pp. 329-348
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital statistics records from a large developing country,...
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