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issue of developing Australia’s capacity in the area of climate change, with particular reference to: the ability of … universities and other research and training institutions to meet current and future demand for climate change professionals; and … measures to assist understanding of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, including the provision of training and skills …
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than with traditional insurance. Chapter 3 analyzes the implications of climate change for catastrophic risk and examines … estimates over time. Climate change essentially plays an important role in modeling catastrophic risks, especially in the tail … of the loss distribution and for longer time scales. Mitigations can completely offset the impact of climate change …
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than with traditional insurance. Chapter 3 analyzes the implications of climate change for catastrophic risk and examines … estimates over time. Climate change essentially plays an important role in modeling catastrophic risks, especially in the tail … of the loss distribution and for longer time scales. Mitigations can completely offset the impact of climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439051
anthropogenic climate change to increased probability of experienced damaging weather events. Our proposal, a departure from current … dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish … shifted to favour changes in the global economy necessary to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change over current …
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contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture … results obtained, the impending changes in global climate will have both positive and negative impacts. While an increment in …
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The purpose of this study is to examine the possible local impacts of cap-and-trade climate policy on agricultural … carbon offset provision and ability of adaptation to mitigate the production cost impact under a cap-and-trade climate policy … study sheds some light on agricultural potential to adapt to economy-wide climate change mitigation while providing a bottom …
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Trading schemes for emission allowances have become a panacea for nations aspiring toreduce their aggregate emissions of greenhouse gases from industry in a cost-effectivemanner. The contention of this paper is that an emissions trading scheme (ETS) shouldnot be based on blanket coverage of...
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context of a set of choices that lead to climate change. In a free society choices are made compatible via the price system … with your choice to live in a coastal area given certain climate change scenarios. Economic literature is rich in analyzing …’s approaches to climate change in this context. …
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We analyze the effects of EU adoption of a Sky Trust (Barnes and Breslow 2003) on the income distribution of Hungary, a lower-middle income EU member. We use plausible parameters for an EU carbon charge and revenue recycling system, input-output data to track the effect of a carbon charge on...
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Electric vehicles (EVs) offer an exciting opportunity in China both in terms of the potential to build a domestic manufacturing base and the potential to create a strong domestic market for the product. The Chinese nation stands to benefit from both supply-side and demand-side promotion due to...
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