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A U.S. Perspective on Future Climate Regimes

Pizer, William A. - 2013

Momentum may be building for federal climate change policy in the United States. Assuming this leads to mandatory greenhouse gas regulations, the door will be open for the United States to constructively re-engage other countries concerning an international climate regime. Such a regime will...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225446

Adaptation vs. climate protection : responses to climate change and policy preferences of individuals in China, Germany, and the USA

Schwirplies, Claudia - 2015

This paper investigates the interrelation between adaptation and climate protection efforts of individuals in a cross-country comparison. The theoretical predictions based on a subjective utility framework demonstrate that, at the individual level, private adaptation and climate protection...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459030

The determinants of voluntary carbon offsetting : a micro-econometric analysis of individuals from Germany and the United States ; conference paper

Schwirplies, Claudia; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014 - Preliminary version

This paper examines the determinants of voluntary individual carbon offsetting, i.e. the financial compensation of emissions from energy use. In contrast to former studies in this field, we particularly consider a comprehensive set of factors that are discussed in the context of voluntary...

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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism

Wang, Shunli; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009

consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide. …

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The US proposed carbon tariffs, WTO scrutiny and China's responses

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: December 7, 2009

With countries from around the world set to meet in Copenhagen to try to hammer out a post-2012 climate change … ; Lieberman-Warner Bill ; Waxman-Markey Bill ; World Trade Organization ; Kyoto Protocol ; China ; United States …

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Development, climate change adaptation, and maladaptation : some econometric evidence

Bosello, Francesco; Dasgupta, Shouro - 2015

This paper examines the determinants of climate related disasters and attempts to estimate the presence of adaptive capacity in terms of per capita income and population density elasticities. We find evidence of adaptive capacity in a “weak” form both in terms of income and population...

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The U.S. Proposed Carbon Tariffs : WTO Scrutiny and China’s Responses

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

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Weather, Climate, and Migration in the United States

Mullins, Jamie T.; Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2021

Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high temperature days on out-migration from counties in the US. We find that...

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The U.S. Proposed Carbon Tariffs, WTO Scrutiny and China’s Responses

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

With countries from around the world set to meet in Copenhagen to try to hammer out a post-2012 climate change …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200216

Locating Justice in a Warming World : Developing Notions of Climate Justice in the UK and the USA

Star, Cassandra - 2014

This paper analyses the development and application of notions of climate justice by non-governmental groups (NGOs …) within two Western developed nations. I argue that the development of the discourse of climate justice in each society is … shaped by historical circumstances, existing discourses of environmental justice, and the political orientations of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047635

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