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Equipping the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for the Low-Carbon Transition : How Are Other National Oil Companies Adapting?
Toledano, Perrine; Dietrich Brauch, Martin; … - 2021
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) persistent governance challenges have both hampered Nigeria’s oil sector development and deprived the country of public resources. The oil, climate, and COVID-19 crises and the ramp-up of the low-carbon transition exacerbate this reality,...
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Climate mitigation and adaptation in Africa : evidence from patent data
Haščič, Ivan; Silva, Jérôme; Johnstone, Nick - 2012
This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in the context of Africa. Such analysis informs policy aimed at encouraging international technology transfer and development of domestic innovation capacities. We present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685852
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The importance of tipping points for sustainable development
Bretschger, Lucas; Leuthard, Matthias - 2024 - This version: March 18, 2024
Solving major sustainability problems such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity requires overcoming a … inertia and path dependencies. As a result, expectations and reality are often still far apart in sustainability policy … thresholds can thus become a successful strategy for sustainability policy. In this paper, we highlight the importance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502191
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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Latin America
Maletta, Hector E.; Maletta, Emiliano - 2014
This monograph reviews evidence on probable impacts of climate change on agricultural production and food security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) up to year 2100, based on the IPCC climate projections (though discussing some of their limitations) and the best impact estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194528
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Assessments of Preparedness, Agri-Food Impacts and Implications for Disaster Risk Management of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2019
On March 11, 2011 the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The later was a “man-made” disaster having immense impacts on people’s life, health and property, infrastructure, supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103276
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Modelling the economic impacts of climate change on global and European agriculture : review of economic structural approaches
Fernández, Francisco J.; Blanco, Maria - 2015
The economic effects of climate change on agriculture have been widely assessed in the last two decades. Many of these assessments are based on the integration of biophysical and agro-economic models, allowing to understand the physical and socio-economic responses of the agricultural sector to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505129
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Integration of biophysical and agro-economic models to assess the economic effects of climate change on agriculture : a review of global and EU regional approaches
Fernández, Francisco J.; Blanco, Maria - 2014
The economic effects of climate change on agriculture have been widely assessed in the last two decades. Many of these assessments are based on the integration of biophysical and agro-economic models, allowing to understand the physical and socio-economic responses of the agricultural sector to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431338
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Comparative analysis of climate and topography in Chaco and Oriental, Paraguay
Lemenkova, Polina - 2021
Abstract [EN]The article reports the issues corresponding to the climate variability and possibility of droughts in spatially distinct regions of Paraguay, the Chaco and the Oriental (Paraná Basin). Based on the GMT scripting approach and high-resolution datasets from the TerraClimate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313442
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Shocks, economic policy and technology choice of heterogeneous producers
Hübler, Michael; Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2019
This article introduces a new Melitz-type model of heterogeneous producers with decreasing returns to scale and different productivities. Different to previous models, it describes smallholder producers in rural areas of developing countries in the context of environment and development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026886
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What is the Top Priority on Climate Change?
Klemperer, Paul - 2009
talk to the Potsdam Global Sustainability Symposium (which drafted the Potsdam Declaration presented to the 2007 UN Climate …
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