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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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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Conven­tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was marked by multiple crises and the shaken confidence of developing countries in the multilateral process. Nonetheless, an agreement was reached on...
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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Conven­tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was marked by multiple crises and the shaken confidence of developing countries in the multilateral process. Nonetheless, an agreement was reached on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225586
mitigation strategies, which are based on market-oriented policies. The analysis compares Brazilian bioethanol, Costa Rican …
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warming develops. It is thus important that the impacts of climate mitigation policies are assessed not only on global and … national levels, but also on the regional level. The key tool for assessing the efficiency of climate mitigation policies and … function. We compare a business-as-usual scenario (no mitigation policy) with various mitigation scenarios with different …
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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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change has been negligible to date, but the potential to contribute to mitigation climate change at the regional level is …
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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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dealing with mitigation and adaptation are mentioned.  …
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sectors and identify economic mitigation potentials for different CO2 prices. While mitigation potentials are generally large … carbon, we calculate benefit/cost ratios for different sectors and mitigation levels. We recommend an economically efficient … global methane mitigation portfolio for the year 2020 that includes the sectors of livestock and manure, rice management …
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