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Sustaining the Arctic in Order to Sustain the Global Climate System
Bodansky, Daniel; Pomerance, Rafe - 2022
means of cooling the earth quickly enough to save Arctic ice and permafrost. Scientific research is essential to better … understand its feasibility, effectiveness, and safety. However, research is not enough; we need to be ready to respond right away … if Arctic or global temperatures need to be lowered quickly. This means we need significant technology research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289049
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Finance and Policies : How Financial Actors and Policy Makers Can Engage in the Green Economy To Respond to Climate Change?
Rueche, Nathan - 2021
This working paper, part of my Master of Economics and International Business Management, highlights the impacts of environmental changes on society and the multidisciplinary concept of sustainable development. This work focuses on two major actors, financial actors and policy-makers, and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239637
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The option value of investments in energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies
Nicodemus, Gerd - 2010
This paper takes up the need to engage in substantial investments in the energy producing capital stock to attack the climate change problem, caused by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. However, the precise magnitudes of economic impacts of global warming as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282652
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Equity and justice in global warming policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2008
climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798530
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Climate change and individual decision making : an examination of knowledge, risk perception, self-interest and their interplay
Pongiglione, Francesca - 2011
In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual's direct experience of climate change and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303794
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Why uncertainty matters : discounting under intertemporal risk aversion and ambiguity
Traeger, Christian - 2012
Uncertainty has an almost negligible impact on project value in the economic standard model. I show that a comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty and uncertainty attitude changes this picture fundamentally. The analysis relies on the discount rate, which is the crucial determinant in balancing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488887
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The option value of investments in energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies
Nicodemus, Gerd - 2010
This paper takes up the need to engage in substantial investments in the energy producing capital stock to attack the climate change problem, caused by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. However, the precise magnitudes of economic impacts of global warming as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749605
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Risk and Aversion in Assessing Climate Policy
Crost, Benjamin - 2013
The precise consequences of climate change remain uncertain. We incorporate damage uncertainty into a joint model of climate and the economy, an integrated assessment model. First, both the science and the integrated assessment community analyze uncertainty by means of sensitivity analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081380
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Climate, Urbanization, and Conflict : The Effects of Weather Shocks and Floods on Urban Social Disorder
Castells-Quintana, David - 2020
In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835360
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Rethinking the Limits of Climate Change Adaptation
Jamero, Ma. Laurice - 2020
Using a case study approach, this research explores the various potential limiting factors of climate change adaptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835365