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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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potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change is a private good, benefiting only the country or the individual that … invests in adaptation. We use a one-shot public-goods game that deviates from the standard public-goods game by introducing a …
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. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a …. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is …Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option …
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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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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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Food security in China affects the livelihood and well-being of one-fifth of the world population. 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...
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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...
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