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Climate change produces future risks and increasing climate variability produces current risks. Reducing disaster risk is addressed at the national level using approaches usually developed by the United Nations. These approaches, particularly in the developed world, address resilience building...
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emissions mitigation. However, the contribution of emissions mitigation projects to the central development objective of poverty … effective. Adaptation to climate change can be expected to have higher synergies with poverty alleviation than mitigation …
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global mitigation within a noncooperative framework where countries either decide on mitigation before or after adaptation … lower national contributions to the global public good of mitigation. We find that the sequencing of adaptation before … mitigation reinforces this strategic effect of technological investments at least for sufficiently similar countries. As a …
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by analyzing their optimal policy … substantial mitigation effort even in a non-cooperative setting, where usually global cooperation on climate, and accordingly … substantive emission reductions, do not succeed. The policy balance is realigned from adaptation toward more mitigation, and the …
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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
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collectively to try to mitigate the root cause of the damage (mitigation), which is a form of public good. Second, an environment … where in addition to collective mitigation, agents can work autonomously to protect themselves from the damages if they … occur (adaptation). The tension is that mitigation and adaptation investments are strategic substitutes. We begin with a …
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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EU mitigation policies are derived from the international agreementsforreducing and limiting greenhouse gases emissions …. Mitigation policies have a strict compliance regime using both positive and negative reinforcement. On the other side, adaptation … the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. By examining the relative projected efficiency of EU's mitigation efforts …
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greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation, and adaptation.  …
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