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Cities - especially those with substantial poor populations - will face increasingly severe challenges in tackling the impacts of global environmental change (GEC). As economic dynamos and increasingly important population concentrations, cities both contribute substantially, and often are very...

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Regime shifts and uncertainty in pollution control

de Zeeuw, Aart; Zemel, Amos - 2012

each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether. …

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Improving global public goods supply through conditional transfers: The international adaptation transfer riddle

Karen, Pittel; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2013

aims at raising mitigation while also reducing the damages from climate change: conditional adaptation support. Especially … alternative conditional transfer schemes: one plainly subsidizes mitigation efforts, while the other provides adaptation support … the global public good 'climate change mitigation'. This paper focuses on a specific type of international transfer that …

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Analysing intersections between climate change and human rights

Terán, Daniel Uribe; Rosales, Luis Fernando - 2022

The effects of climate change on people's daily lives threaten the full enjoyment of human rights. The Human Rights Council adopted two landmark resolutions recognising the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (Resolution 48/13), and establishing the mandate for a Special...

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