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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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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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recent 2009 Copenhagen Accord, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to combat … uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When catastrophic uncertainty is … that optimal mitigation responses are much less sensitive than adaptation responses to spatial uncertainty. Mitigation …
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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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This paper reviews the role of Social Protection and Labor in supporting both climate adaptation and mitigation efforts … potential to support adaptation, decarbonization and mitigation is still to be realized. … through the distributional impacts of climate mitigation policies. The paper discusses how - even without explicit …
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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290082
of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also … worse outcomes, as it can lead to diminishing public support for the required mitigation and adaptation (as has arguably … been the case with globalization). Since there is also evidence that high human capital improves adaptation and mitigation …
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