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The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), in cooperation with the Czech Presidency, organised a conference addressing the theme of working conditions and social dialogue in Prague on 22-23 June 2009. The conference aimed to present the findings of...
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This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the wholesale sector (NACE 46).1 It is based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working conditions and the quality of work across 34...
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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 …
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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 … annual average temperatures will increase mean output and decrease production risk, an increase in temperature variability …
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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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The objective of this study is to provide a European assessment of the potential effects of climate change on … scenarios incorporate socio economic projections derived from several SRES scenarios and climate projections obtained from … global climate models and regional climate models. The quantitative results are based simulations using the GTAP general …
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