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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 program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy...
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Time is of the essence: climate adaptation induced by existing institutions
Bento, Antonio; Miller, Noah; Mookerjee, Mehreen; … - 2021
In the absence of first-best climate policy, we demonstrate that existing government institutions and policy established for reasons unrelated to climate change may induce climate adaptation. We examine the impact of temperature on ambient ozone concentration in the United States from 1980-2013,...
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Climate adaptation policies and infant health : evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - In: Journal of public economics 220 (2023), pp. 1-11
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Net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 : achievable and at what cost?
Morris, Jennifer; Chen, Henry; Gurgel, Angelo; Reilly, … - In: Climate change economics : CCE 14 (2023) 4, pp. 1-28
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Assessment of the impact of road transport policies on air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Kenya
Mbandi, Aderiana Mutheu; Malley, Christopher S.; … - In: Energy strategy reviews 49 (2023), pp. 1-14
alternative policy scenarios for the Kenya road transport sector. In 2010, road transport emissions accounted for 61% of total … nitrogen oxides emissions in Kenya, 39% of fine particulate matter, 20% of carbon dioxide. In the business as usual scenario … investment in public transport are shown to be effective mitigation options to meet Kenya's climate change goals with the …
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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in Kenya's food system : economic interdependencies and policy opportunities
Nin, Alejandro - 2023
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Supply Side Climate Policy and the Green Paradox
Hoel, Michael - 2013
The focus of the green paradox literature has been either on demand-side climate policies or on effects of technological changes. The present paper addresses the question of whether there also might be some kind of green paradox related to supply-side policies, i.e. policies that per-manently...
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Air Quality and Climate Policy Integration in India : Frameworks to deliver co-benefits
International Energy Agency - 2021
Air pollution has emerged as one of India’s gravest social and environmental problems in recent years. At the same time, the country is experiencing signs of a warming climate with potentially devastating effects in the long term. Energy-related fuel combustion is at the heart of both crises....
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...
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Pollution havens: international empirical evidence using a shadow price measure of climate policy stringency
Hille, Erik - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 54 (2018) 3, pp. 1137-1171
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