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Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments : the transport sector in Latvia
Dobrinevski, Alexander; Jachnik, Raphaël - 2020
the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated … transport mode to a 2°C scenario from the International Energy Agency’s for the European Union and to projections from Latvia … highlights future investment and financing challenges, especially for road transport. The methodology piloted in this study can …
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Benefits of Organic Agriculture as a Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy in Developing Countries
Muller, Adrian - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
Organic agriculture as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability is a concrete and promising option for adaptation in rural communities. Organic agriculture has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This text is a short review article on this topic. Adaptation and...
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Implications of climate change for Ghana's economy
Arndt, Channing; Asante, Felix Ankomah; Thurlow, James - 2014
Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country's dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by detailed sector studies, to estimate the...
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Global warming, technological change and trade in carbon energy : challenge or threat?
Stephan, Gunter; Müller-Fürstenberger, Georg - 2014
Is it possible to combat global climate change through North-to-South technology transfer even without a global climate treaty? Or do carbon leakage and the rebound effect imply that it is possible to take advantage of technological improvements under the umbrella of a global arrangement only?...
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Green growth opportunities for Asia
Fankhauser, Sam; Kazaglis, Alex; Srivastav, Sugandha - 2017
This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...
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Family planning and climate change
Gerlagh, Reyer; Lupi, Veronica; Galeotti, Marzio - 2018
The historical increase in emissions is for one-fourth attributable to the growth of emissions per person, whereas three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate-economic studies, which mostly neglect the environmental...
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Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments : the manufacturing industries in Norway
Dobrinevski, Alexander; Jachnik, Raphaël - 2020
This paper presents results from a first pilot study to measure the consistency of real economy investments with climate change mitigation objectives. The analysis focuses on investments in infrastructure and equipment in the manufacturing industries in Norway between 2010 and 2017, estimated at...
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Perspectives on climate policies
Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2019
The purpose of this article is twofold: First to discuss three misconceptions in the debate on climate policies: i) that de-growth is necessary, ii) that the market economy is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to climate change, and iii) that the only policy tool needed is to...
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Achieving the “Low Carbon, Green Growth” Vision in Korea
Jones, Randall S.; Yoo, Byungseo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...
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Climate damages in convergence-consistent growth projections
Harding, Tony; Moreno Cruz, Juan; Quaas, Martin F.; … - 2023
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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