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Mainstreaming the adaptations and reducing the vulnerability of the poor due to climate change

Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - 2011

Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change …. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction … the world are wideranging and include development of technology, management, infrastructure, livestock, groundwater, and …

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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...

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Energy poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation : is there a trade off?

Chakravarty, Shoibal; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013

Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and … consumption. Our results indicate that an energy poverty eradication policy to be met by 2030 would increase global final energy … poverty would produce 16-131 GtCO2 over the 21st century and contribute at most 0.1C of additional warming. -- Energy Poverty …

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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - 2023

Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...

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Two Decades of International Climate Negotiations - Carbon Budget Allocation Approach to Re-Shaping Developing Country Strategies

Yedla, Sudhakar - 2016

the present budget estimates based on world per capita budget for the next forty years and proportional to the population …

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Tracking international aid projects for ocean conservation and climate action

Shiiba, Nagisa; Maekawa, Miko; Vegh, Tibor; Virdin, John - 2022

Ocean conservation and sustainable use cannot be pursued or achieved without consideration of the planetary impacts of climate change, and particularly the role of the oceans in both mitigation and adaptation. For this reason, the international community has increasingly committed to providing...

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Two Global Challenges, One Solution : International Cooperation to Combat Climate Change and Tropical Deforestation

La Vina, Antonio - 2015

This paper provides an analysis of the international political dynamics around the reduction of tropical deforestation and forest degradation as a climate mitigation strategy, emphasizing the necessity of an enabling environment and sustainable financing to support the scaling up of these...

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International Support of Climate Change Policies in Developing Countries : Strategic, Moral and Fairness Aspects

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2011

International transfers in climate policy channeled from the industrialized to the developing world either support the … funding may help both the developing and developed world. Interestingly this is not due to altruistic incentives, but due to …

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International Support of Climate Change Policies in Developing Countries : Strategic, Moral and Fairness Aspects

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2011

International transfers in climate policy channeled from the industrialized to the developing world either support the … adaptation funding may help both developing and developed world. Interestingly this is not due to altruistic incentives, but due …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186136

Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change

Agrawala, Shardul - 2014

Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focused on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis...

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