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is used to analyze the impact of adaptation assistance from North to South. It is shown that North’s unilateral … assistance to South (thus enhancing South’s adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …
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In diesem Arbeitspapier wird die Rolle des öffentlichen Sektors bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel behandelt. Zuerst … werden die Möglichkeiten zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel definiert und kategorisiert. Dann werden die volkswirtschaftlichen … Hauptbereiche, in denen der öffentliche Sektor eine Rolle bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel spielen kann, Folgende sind …
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is used to analyze the impact of adaptation assistance from North to South. It is shown that North's unilateral … assistance to South (thus enhancing South's adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256464
There is growing international interest in the planning, financing and implementation of adaptation to climate change … complemented by a high-level analysis of broader private sector adaptation based on responses to the 2009 Carbon Disclosure Project … adaptation measures and strategies to manage these risks. The analysis also examines how companies are taking advantage of new …
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This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...
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We examine the optimal management of emission permit markets when banking but not borrowing of permits is allowed. The regulator maximizes expected social welfare through an optimal allocation rule in an infinite horizon setting. The policy is second-best as the emission cap is set before the...
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There is a large number of regional agreements concerning Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, often linked to other regional integration agreements. The most successful one in making effort in reducing carbon emissions is the Emission Trading System by the European Union (EU ETS). Apart from this...
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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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Under which conditions unilateral tightening of climate policy causes a weak or strong green paradox or even decreases social welfare has recently been studied by Hoel (2011). Hoel assumes that the costs of extracting fossil fuel are linear in output. We extend his model by allowing for...
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After twenty years of global negotiations, the world is still far from a comprehensive climate agreement. The "top-down" approach embodied by the Kyoto Protocol has all but stalled, chiefly due to disagreements over levels of ambition and objections to financial transfers. To avoid those...
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