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We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate …
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radical shift toward planning for climate change and adaptation. It inadequately addresses social planning issues that are …
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Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...
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uncertainty. Our analysis of adaptation options indicates that investing in agricultural research and extension and improved road …
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The economic effects of global warming have gained considerable attention in recent economic literature. However, the interaction between desertification and agricultural productivity has not received substantial consideration. In this paper, we explore the relationship between soil...
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light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about … problems. In an attempt to advance in the modelling of adaptation within IAM models, we apply this methodology to shed some …
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and analysing reliable data on mitigation costs and climate change impacts; identifying and addressing barriers to …
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The Cancún Agreements formalise a collective commitment by developed countries to provide new and additional funding for action on climate change in developing countries both in the short- and longer-term. This collective financial commitment requires a system to measure, report and verify...
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This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on … source of LDC climate adaptation finance, is still fit for purpose? …
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This paper argues that in the future the primary focus of policy research and global agreements should be the de-carbonization of economic development. Consequently, instead of treating climate stabilization and economic development as separate and equal, the strategy should be to re-integrate...
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