population growth, GDP growth, renewable energy consumption, and interest rates. …

We study the impact of climate volatility on economic growth exploiting data on 133 countries between 1960 and 2005. We … conditions less predictable across countries, with important implications for growth. Controlling for concomitant changes in … temperatures, a +1oC increase in temperature volatility causes on average a 0.9 per cent decline in GDP growth and a 1.3 per cent …