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A strategy of inclusion of adaptation and mitigation expenses in a model of optimal growth under threat of climate … (even to extinction forever) and/or triggers a fundamental change of the economic structure. Mitigation expenses reduce the … long-run probability of a calamity or the speed of convergence to it; adaptation expenses help to improve the standard of …
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The objective of this research agenda is to outline the issues that need to be investigated in order to produce an informed assessment of what strategies and policies Latin America and its international organizations should pursue with respect to climate change. This report makes the three...
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Over the last century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty. However …, there is an increasing concern that climate change could slow or possibly even reverse poverty reduction progress. Given the … complexities involved in analyzing climate change impacts on poverty, different approaches can be helpful. This note surveys the …
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change mitigation, disaster preparedness, early response, and postdisaster reconstruction. …
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Developing countries are faced with a substantial and persistent infrastructure deficit. Climate change complicates this challenge, affcting the way we design and manage infrastructure (defined here as transport, power, water and sanitation) and increasing costs. But all s not negative: Climate...
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recent 2009 “Copenhagen Accord”, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to … both cases uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When …. It is also shown that optimal mitigation responses are much less sensitive than adaptation responses to spatial …
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widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast …
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mitigation of climate change or the adaptation to global warming. From an allocative efficiency point of view, transfers … supporting mitigation tend to be Pareto-improving whereas this is not very likely in the case of adaptation support. We … adaptation funding may help both developing and developed world. Interestingly this is not due to altruistic incentives, but due …
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In this paper we focus on a long-term dynamic analysis of the optimal adaptation/mitigation mix in the presence of a … pollution threshold above which adaptation is no longer efficient. We account for accumulation in abatement capital, greenhouse … gases, and adaptation capital in order to better capture the arbitrage between abatement and adaptation investments …
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effects on society, economy and nature. The lack of response of carbon emitters in mitigation has aid to raise temperature … continuously. This time adaptation is getting more and more attention to reduce the socio economic vulnerability and risks … associated with the climate change. Adaptation is unavoidable. This paper enumerates the literature review of Adaptation …
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