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Long-term low emissions development strategies : cross-country experience
Aguilar Jaber, Aimée; Anderson, Brilé; Nachtigall, Daniel - 2020
The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
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Green Bonds, Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy, and Intergenerational Fairness : Evidence from an Extended DICE Model
Orlov, Sergey - 2018
current generations have to carry the burden of paying for mitigation, while the next generations will enjoy the benefits for … worse off if a mitigation policy is implemented. Additional compensation mechanisms ensuring that the current generation … retains the consumption level equal to the one without mitigation are needed to achieve a Pareto improvement of the mitigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931691
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Sustainable Climate Treaties
Gersbach, Hans - 2011
We examine a global refunding scheme for mitigating climate change. Countries pay an initial fee into a global fund that is invested in long-run assets. In each period, part of the fund is distributed among the participating countries in relation to the emission reductions they have achieved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123407
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Sustainable Climate Treaties
Gersbach, Hans - 2017
We examine long-run treaties for mitigating climate change. Countries pay an initial fee into a global fund that is invested in long-run assets. In each period, part of the fund is distributed among the participating countries in relation to the emission reductions they have achieved in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958888
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OECD progress update on approaches to mobilising institutional investment for sustainable infrastructure : background paper to the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group
Röttgers, Dirk; Tandon, Aayush; Kaminker, Christopher - 2018
The large need for investments in sustainable infrastructure will require investments from the private sector, including institutional investors. This working paper contributes to scaling up investments by analysing public project-level interventions for projects involving institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990042
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Tackling energy, climate and development challenges in Africa
Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious; Quitzow, Rainer; Steckel, … - 2018
and climate change mitigation, African countries need infrastructure that cover basic needs while at the same time promote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917270
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Improving quality of life through sustainable energy and urban infrastructure in Africa
Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious; Quitzow, Rainer; Steckel, … - 2018
Focusing on critical aspects of infrastructure, such as energy, this paper argues that African countries, and African cities in particular, need infrastructure that advances both basic needs and industrialization, and avoids a lock-in of unsustainable, high-carbon technologies. G20 countries can...
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The National Climate Budget and the first Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement : to what degree are they aligned?
Monsod, Toby C. - 2022
latter but which are likely to have significant mitigation co-benefits. More fundamentally, there are a number of budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438696
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Towards a sustainable recovery? Carbon pricing policy changes during COVID-19
OECD - 2022
This brief focuses on the role carbon pricing can play in the COVID-19 recovery and in reaching national and international climate goals, such as those in the Paris Agreement. It outlines the carbon pricing policy changes (Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS), fossil fuel support (FFS), carbon, fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174600
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Green fiscal reform for a just energy transition in Latin America
Jakob, Michael; Soria, Rafael; Trinidad Alvarado, Carlos; … - 2019
Green fiscal reforms would contribute to climate change mitigation, increase the economic efficiency of national tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983269