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'The Voracity Effect' and Climate Change : The Impact of Clean Technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita - 2013

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...

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Our Climate Moment Is Now! (Or How to Change the Story to Save Our World)

Bratspies, Rebecca M. - 2019

The Trump Administration has expressed its intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. However, may of the states and cities that together make up the United States have declared that they "are still in." This draft chapter for a forthcoming book by the Environmental Law...

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Robust Incentives and the Design of a Climate Change Governance Regime

Nemet, Gregory F. - 2015

In building a governance regime to address climate change, should we prioritize the development of global institutions or national ones? This paper adds insight to the issue of how much international coordination on climate governance is optimal by focusing on two neglected characteristics of...

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Climate Change Valuation Adjustment (CCVA) Using Parameterized Climate Change Impacts

Kenyon, Chris; Berrahoui, Mourad - 2021

We introduce Climate Change Valuation Adjustment (CCVA) to capture climate change impacts on CVA+FVA that are currently invisible assuming typical market practice. To discuss such impacts on CVA+FVA from changes to instantaneous hazard rates we introduce a flexible and expressive...

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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

Senegal’s efforts to develop climate change adaptation and mitigation plans and strategies to protect the vulnerable key …

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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 - 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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Sudan – Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development : A Study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security

Osman, Abdelrahman; 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...

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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...

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Technology will save the climate! : attitudes towards Norway's climate policy in four social groups

Nordø, Åsta Dyrnes; Andersen, Gisle; Merk, Christine - 2023

The risk of opposition from the population increasingly plays a role in choosing the climate policy measures to achieve the objective to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In Norway, there is a long-standing cross-party consensus that the development of new technologies will be...

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Cleaner Technologies and the Stability of International Environmental Agreements

Benchekroun, Hassan - 2012

This paper shows that, if countries are farsighted when deciding whether to defect from a coalition, then the implementation of cleaner technologies may jeopardize the chances of reaching an international environmental agreement. The grand coalition may be destabilized by the implementation of...

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