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Climate change related risks, opportunities and adaptation actions in European cities : insights from responses to the CDP cities program

Groth, Markus; Brück, Maria; Oberascher, Teresa - 2016

climate change and worthy to protect. To address these challenges, implementing climate change adaptation measures is … inevitable. The paper provides insights into climate change related risks, opportunities and adaptation actions based on … European cities indicate that they have implemented adaptation action plans and 82.5% of all cities are putting adaptation …

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Coalition formation with border carbon adjustment

Schopf, Mark - 2020

The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...

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Environmental and economic impact of carbon credit in Makassar City in Indonesia

Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fukuda, Takahide - 2015

Economic measures are advanced to environmental problems in EU nations. The economic approach imposes a constant economic load on activities negatively affecting the environment, and it is also a technique for giving a constant profit for activities conserving the environment. The whole society...

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The value of information for efficient agricultural adaptation to climate change scenarios in a semi-arid region in Austria

Karner, K.; Mitter, H.; Schönhart, M.; Schmid, E. - In: Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft zwischen …, (pp. 173-184). 2018

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Opportunity cost of environmental preservation : the case of the Brazilian Legal Amazon

Chagas, André Luis Squarize; Andrade, Luiza Cardoso de - 2013

Currently, the region named Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) represents the agricultural frontier of Brazil, and it concentrates the deforestation processes, so-called arc of deforestation. This region covers the total area of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins, and...

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Prices versus quantities with morally concerned consumers

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Herweg, Fabian - 2021

It is widely believed that an environmental tax (price regulation) and cap-and-trade (quantity regulation) are equally efficient in controlling pollution when there is no uncertainty. We show that this is not the case if some consumers (firms, local governments) are morally concerned about...

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The distribution of energy efficiency and regional inequality

Hobbs, Andrew; Singhal, Puja - 2021

This paper studies the long-term distribution of energy-efficiency outcomes in the German residential sector. To uncover the underlying energy efficiency of buildings, we estimate the causal response of building-level heat energy demand to variability in heating degree days. We examine...

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Modelling the impacts of a national carbon tax in a country with inhomogeneous regional development : an actor-based system-dynamic approach : paper presented at ERSA 54th Congress, Regional development & globalisation: Best practices, 26-29 August 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia

Kovalevsky, Dmitry V.; Hasselmann, Klaus - 2014

Different countries of the world are affected differently by the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. For a large country consisting of several regions with different geographical conditions, the direct geographical impacts of climate change may differ significantly. Given the...

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A bridge over troubled water : flooding shocks and supply chains

Bijnens, Gert; Montoya, Mariano; Vanormelingen, Stijn - NBB Conference Deglobalisation, Decarbonisation and … - 2024

This paper estimates how the impact of a natural disaster propagates through the production network. More precisely, we look at the excessive rainfall in the summer of 2021 that caused large areas to be severely flooded in Belgium. We first look at the direct effects on firms active in the...

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Will COVID-19 change the calculus of climate policy?

Rutherford, Thomas F.; Böhringer, Christoph - 2021

Public health experts caution that global warming increases the likelihood of novel coronaviruses and amplifies their impacts. Such contagions are virtually unique in their ability to inflict catastrophic worldwide harm. Even more alarming is the forecast that future coronavirus pandemics will...

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