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Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The …, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517152
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Subsidizing human capital to overcome the green paradox : a demand-side approach
Steinkraus, Arne - 2016
This paper shifts the perspective of the recent green paradox literature towards the demand side. Based on a simple model, I show that a subsidy on input factors in a Cobb-Douglas production function may contribute substantially to postponing resource extraction into the future and, thereby, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529800
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Unilateral climate policy, the Green Paradox, Coalition Size and Stability
Kollenbach, Gilbert - 2014
We incorporate three important aspects of current climate policy, unilateralism, demand side approach and a climate target, in a multi-country model with flow dependent fossil fuel extraction costs and a backstop. It turns out that the optimal climate coalition should encompass all countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462827
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Foreign aid and climate change policy : what can('t) the data tell us?
Kono, Daniel Y.; Montinola, Gabriella R. - 2019
annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986902
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Climate change impacts on Moroccan agriculture and the whole economy : an analysis of the impacts of the Plan Maroc Vert in Morocco
Ouraich, Ismail; Tyner, Wallace E. - 2014
Maroc Vert, helps in agricultural adaptation to climate change and uncertainty. We develop a regionalized Morocco Computable … 2050, and introduced with respect to a 2003 baseline. With no adaptation, GDP impacts range from -3.1 per cent (worst … contraction in economic aggregates. Accounting for the adaptation measures in the Plan Maroc Vert, the GDP impacts from climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349439
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Climate change and economic activity : evidence from U.S. states
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2022
We investigate the long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change across 48 U.S. states over the period 1963.2016 using a novel econometric strategy which links deviations of temperature and precipitation (weather) from their long-term moving-average historical norms (climate) to various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806494
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Environmental and economic impact of carbon credit in Makassar City in Indonesia
Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fukuda, Takahide - 2015
Economic measures are advanced to environmental problems in EU nations. The economic approach imposes a constant economic load on activities negatively affecting the environment, and it is also a technique for giving a constant profit for activities conserving the environment. The whole society...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483125
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Climate-related disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
Natural disasters are on the rise worldwide. There are more and more intense natural disasters - which are defined to cause at least 100 deaths or to affect the basic survival needs of at least 1,000 people - resulting from floods and storms as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781147
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DICE-RD : an implementation of rate-related damages in the DICE model
Michaelis, Peter; Wirths, Heiko - 2019 - Preliminary version
A growing body of literature from the natural and the social sciences indicates that the rate of temperature increase is another key driver of total climate damages, next to the absolute increase in temperature compared to the pre-industrial level. Nonetheless, the damage functions employed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027045
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The cost of climate stabilization in Southeast Asia, a joint assessment with dynamic optimization and CGE models
Bosello, Francesco; Marangoni, Giacomo; Orecchia, Carlo; … - 2016
Southeast Asia is at a time one of the most vulnerable region to the impacts of a changing climate, with millions of its inhabitants still trapped in extreme poverty without access to energy and employed in climate-sensitive sectors, and, potentially, one of the world’s biggest contributors to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591805