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The powerful typhoon Haiyan that swept across the Philippines is one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, cut a path of destruction through several central islands, causing scores of people dead. The disaster's full impact is still revealing as the entire country has been caught in a...
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Objective - This paper sets out to assess perceptions of food retailers regarding climate change, greenhouse gas emission and sustainability in the Nelson Mandela Bay region of South Africa. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the food retailers' greenhouse gas emissions...
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informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high temperature days on out …
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This paper examines corporate governance and Climate Change risk management of transport industry in Hong Kong. This exploratory case study aims to investigate how the board of directors of an organization in the transport sector is addressing Climate Change risks through governance practices....
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that an increase in effectiveness of adaptation will diminish the incentive of individual countries to free-ride on a … global agreement over emissions. Moreover, we show that this positive effect of an increase in adaptation's effectiveness can …
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We show that adaptive measures undertaken by countries in the face of climate change, apart from directly reducing the damage caused by climate change, may also indirectly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the stable size of international agreements on emission reductions....
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, we show that larger coalitions, in the presence of adaptation, may lead to lower global emission levels and higher …
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, we show that larger coalitions, in the presence of adaptation, may lead to lower global emission levels and higher …
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We develop quantitative methods to support financial product analysis-redesign required by the Carbon Equivalence Principle (CEP) to achieve financial net-zero and thus carbon net-negative positions. We then apply the CEP analysis-redesign to project finance for power generation across a range...
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We introduce the Carbon Equivalence Principle that requires carbon-equivalent flows enabled, or caused, by a financial product to have equal status with cashflows. This reveals that existing financial products already have environmental impact and so are ESG-linked, without the need for any...
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