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discussions about binding emission limits. China is one of the key players in that context. However, beyond the imperative of … effectively implemented. In fact, with respect to China, it is not all clear that existing governance structures are presently … mitigating China's greenhouse gas emissions. After reviewing China's significance to the problem, the essay examines the National …
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Bilateral trade and capital flows have increased substantially between the United States and China yielding economic … (United States) and the South (China) in the presence of a global pollution externality. Each country's share of global … high, there will be pressure on the US to raise environmental regulations on industry. Capital will move to China. Because …
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Bilateral trade and capital flows have increased substantially between the United States and China yielding economic …) and the South (China) in the presence of a global pollution externality. Each country's share of global pollution depends … pressure on the US to raise environmental regulations on industry. Capital will move to China. Because the increased pollution …
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records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid …
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Climate change is a significant threat to sustainable development (SD). Using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI) a decomposition of the data on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2000-2013 is carried out. To detect if decoupling of the environmental variable...
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This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
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The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Paris 2015) reached an international agreement to keep the rise in global average temperature ‘well below 2°C' and to ‘aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C'. These reductions will have to be made in the face of rising global energy demand....
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Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) are perhaps the most influential economic policy analyses today. My paper evaluates their development, natural associations, logical consequences, and economic identification. All five SSP baseline scenarios are predicting scenarios that historical...
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Climate change is likely to have relevant effects on our future socio-economic systems. It is therefore important to identify how markets and policy jointly react to expected climate change to protect our societies and well-being. This study addresses this issue by carrying out an integrated...
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Projections of climate change damages based on climate-econometric estimates suggest that, without mitigation, global warming could reduce average global incomes by over 20% towards the end of the century (Burke et al., 2015). This figure significantly surpasses climate damages in Integrated...
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