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This study examines the effect of climate on citywide labour productivity in the Accra city region. We use data from … Ghana's Integrated Business and Establishment Survey dataset, climate data at the sub-city level from Ghana Meteorological … African cities seek to understand the impact of climate change and how to integrate climate change considerations into urban …
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We conduct a review of the existing academic literature to outline possible links between climate change and inequality …, measures that individuals and governments take to adapt to climate change and transition to lower emissions risk increasing … research on the nexus between inequality and climate change. …
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Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...
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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is an effort by nine states to constrain carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector using a cap-and-trade program. This paper assesses the importance of long-term electricity contracts under the program. We find that 12.2% of generation will be...
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While the rest of the world has pursued absolute emissions limits for greenhouse gases, the Bush administration has proposed an alternative policy formulation based, among other things, on reducing emissions intensity—that is, emissions per dollar of real gross domestic product. Critics of...
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A clean energy standard (CES) is a flexible approach to encouraging a cleaner technology mix for electricity production. The most recent federal CES proposal from former Senator Bingaman would transform the way electricity is produced and result in substantial reductions in CO2 emissions with...
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This paper analyses the potential of biomass-based electricity in the EU-27 countries, and interactions with climate … and others climate policies. …
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scientific evidence points to the link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and climate variables such …, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards are three main disaster risk factors behind the … necessity of greater prevention of natural disasters, and of integrating climate adaptation and mitigation in reducing disaster …
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The uncertainty surrounding both costs and benefits associated with global climate change mitigation creates enormous … over climate benefits and future emissions reductions. The paper then argues that in the near term, this favoritism is …
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impacts. Values consistently incorporate health and agricultural impacts of air quality along with climate damages. The latter … include damages associated with aerosol-induced hydrologic cycle changes that lead to net climate benefits when reducing …
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