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Assessing the implications of a global net-zero transition for developing Asia: Insights from integrated assessment modeling
Emmerling, Johannes; Reis, Lara Aleluia; Drouet, Laurent; … - 2023
This paper uses a global integrated assessment model to assess how developing Asia, the world's fastest-growing source of carbon emissions, could transition to low-carbon growth. It finds that national net-zero pledges do not have a high chance of keeping peak warming below 2êC. Under an...
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The curse of bad geography: Stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital
Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023
Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...
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The impact of energy on climate and economic stability: Forecast for Serbia
Backović, Nemanja; Jakšić, Miomir; Ilić, Bojan - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 13 (2024) 1, pp. 199-222
In the conditions of modern business environment of energy companies, studies of their impact on environmental protection are becoming increasingly important. The growing concern at the macro level of the resulting climate change due to energy production is justified. The ecological component in...
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The impacts of climate change and air pollution on children's education outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Do, Minh N. N. - 2024
Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes, particularly in a developing country setting. Analyzing a rich database consisting of household and school surveys, test scores, and temperature and air pollution data over the past...
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Prospects and challenges for EU rare earth imports from Russia: The case of Germany, France and Italy
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), which dominate key global supply chains, including those for …
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Prospects and challenges for the export of rare earths from Sub-Saharan Africa to the EU
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
-Saharan Africa (SSA). Currently, China produces 58% of all REEs worldwide. It is the main importer of minerals from Africa, with … mineral exports from sub-Saharan Africa to China totalling USD 10 bn in 2019. Its dominance of the global rare earths market … such as South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo …
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Mitigation of methane emissions: a rapid and cost-effective response to climate change
Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - 2009
Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon according to the latest IPCC report. Thus, CH4...
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Market effects of voluntary climate action by firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange
Gans, Will; Hintermann, Beat - 2011
Why do for-profit firms take voluntary steps to improve the environment? Brand appeal to green consumers or investors, the ability to influence or avoid regulation, or the experience gained for future regulation, have all been suggested as possible reasons. The empirical evidence is decidedly...
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Intertemporal evaluation criteria for climate change policy: the basic ethical issues
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - 2011
The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the 'appropriate' discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned...
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
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