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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM):An Early History of Unanticipated Outcomes

Dinar, Ariel; Larson, Donald F; Rahman, Shaikh M - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

designed, including the CDM. While many applaud the CDM, others are concerned with its performance and achievements, and … sectorally. Much analysis is available on CDM, but very little comprehensive analysis, addressing various aspects of CDM is … economic assessment of certain (not certain) CDM performances, and its future sustainability and trajectory …

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Confronting Climate-Related Disasters in Asia and the Pacific

Thomas, Vinod - In: Review of Economics 65 (2014) 2, pp. 193-207

The frequency of intense natural disasters has been on the rise worldwide over the past 40 years. Meanwhile, temperatures have risen on average, while both temperatures and precipitation have become more variable and more extreme. Their impacts are clearly visible in Asia and the Pacific region,...

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Understanding India's Representation of North–South Climate Politics

Joshi, Shangrila - In: Global Environmental Politics 13 (2013) 2, pp. 128-147

This paper examines India's role in perpetuating North-South imaginaries in global climate politics. A Global South perspective on climate politics is premised on the differential contribution of developed and developing countries towards climate change, differential adaptive capacities, and the...

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ASEAN Economic community and climate change

Nurdianto, Ditya A; Resosudarmo, Budy P - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper analyzes the benefits and losses associated with cooperation among ASEAN members in mitigating their CO2 emission, particularly by implementing a uniform carbon tax across ASEAN. To achieve this goal, this paper uses a multi-country CGE model for ASEAN, known as the Inter-Regional...

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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism

Wang, Shunli; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Nijkamp, Peter; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and environmental developments has received relatively little attention. This … is partly caused by the complexities of modelling an instrument like CDM. By using and modifying the GTAP-E modelling … system, this paper sets out to trace the combined economic and environmental impacts of CDM policies. Particular emphasis is …

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An empirical investigation of socio-economic resilience to natural disasters

Akter, Sonia; Mallick, Bishawjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper presents an empirical investigation of socio-economic resilience to natural disasters of a tropical cyclone-prone coastal community in Bangladesh. It applies the state-and-transition model, a widely used applied ecology model, to (1) assess the current state of socio-economic...

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The Legal Framework of Vietnam’s Water Sector: Update 2013

Nguyen, Thi Phuong Loan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In order to deal with problems related to both water quality and quantity as well as to strengthen the sustainable and integrative management of the nation’s water resources, the Vietnamese Government has adopted a wide spectrum of laws and regulations. In recent years, more than 300 water...

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The impact of government expenditure on the environment: An empirical investigation

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the impact of government spending on the environment using a panel of 77 countries for the time period 1980-2000. We estimate both the direct effect of government spending on pollution and the indirect effect which operates through government spending impact on per capita...

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Discounting, Distribution and Disaggregation

Yamaguchi, Rintaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of the rich and the poor, a standard setting in the literature of cost-benefit analysis with distributional considerations. We derive several discount rates for different...

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Linking developing country's cooperation on climate control with industrialized country's R&D and technology transfer

Kemfert, Claudia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Using a world multi-sectoral, multi-regional trade model, this paper has investigated the economic and environmental implications of climate control coalitions cooperating on R&D investment that triggers low cost environmentally friendly technologies. We start with the Kyoto scenario where all...

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