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The voracity effect and climate change: The impact of clean technologies
Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011
We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279422
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Optimal Climate Policy under Exogenous and Endogenous Technical Change: Making Sense of the Different Approaches
Coppens, Léo; Dietz, Simon; Venmans, Frank - 2024
, and technical change is one of the key assumptions in any IAM that estimates mitigation costs. We conduct a systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534381
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Are EU regions ready to tackle climate change?
Cappellano, Francesco; Marques Santos, Anabela; Dotti, … - 2023
This paper provides quantitative evidence on the geography of regional readiness to tackle climate change using data from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain. Following Cappellano et al. (2022), we estimate a composite indicator that reports the situation of regions in these countries...
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Niger - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Adamou, Rabani; Ibrahim, Boubacar; Bonkaney, Abdou Latif; … - 2021
The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Located in the central part, Niger is facing many complex and interconnected challenges which strongly hinder the achievement of the key sustainable development goals (SDGs). The high population growth rate (3.8% per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662859
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Nigeria - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Olayide, Olawale Emmanuel - 2021
actions for sustainable land management and climate change adaptation and mitigation, 4) evaluation of existing major policies … witnessed in programme and policy implementation on climate change mitigation, land use, energy and sustainable development in … mitigation, land use, energy and sustainable development in Nigeria. Another important suggestion is the need for provision of …
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Senegal - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Faye, Amy; Dièye, Mohamadou; Diakhaté, Pape Bilal; … - 2021
Located in West Africa, Senegal is classified as a least-developed country that has historically had political stability and slow economic growth compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, from 2012 onward, a new government has adopted new policies (infrastructure investments,...
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Sudan - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Osman, Abdelrahman Khidir; Ali, Adil M. - 2021
Sudan is situated in Sub-Saharan Africa, covering an area of about 1.9 million km2 and has a population of 43 million. It is regarded as one of the countries in the world where human development is least advanced with a poverty rate of about 46%. Sudan's economy is based on agriculture, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662862
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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012
Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318844
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"The voracity effect" and climate change : the impact of clean technologies
Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011
We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798037
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Urban climate adaptation and leadership : from conceptual understanding to practical action
Carmin, JoAnn; Dodman, David; Chu, Eric - 2013
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban adaptation that emerged from the discussions...
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