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Assessing the role of microfinance in fostering adaptation to climate change
Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - 2010
change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of … the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries – Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732151
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Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change
Agrawala, Shardul - 2010
change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of … the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries – Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012442996
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Assessing the role of microfinance in fostering adaptation to climate change
Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - 2010
change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of … the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries - Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272440
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Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change
Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of … the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries – Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465531
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Global and regional impacts of the clean development mechanism
Wang, Shunli; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009
consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378304
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Long-term low emissions development strategies : cross-country experience
Aguilar Jaber, Aimée; Anderson, Brilé; Nachtigall, Daniel - 2020
The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422646
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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013
In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200830
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Climate change adaptation, development, and international financial support : lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds
Przyluski, Valentin; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2010
Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747740
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Climate Change Adaptation, Development, and International Financial Support : Lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds
Przyluski, Valentin - 2010
Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135948
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Physical climate change risks and the sovereign creditworthiness of emerging economies
Böhm, Hannes - 2020
I show that rising temperatures can detrimentally affect the sovereign creditworthiness of emerging economies. To this end, I collect long-term monthly temperature data of 54 emerging countries. I calculate a country’s temperature deviation from its historical average, which approximates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234481