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Climate Change poses a wide range of potentially very severe threats in China. This aggravates the existing … vulnerability of China and is one of the big challenges faced by the Chinese government. Adaptation programmes and projects are … being developed and implemented at national and local level. As China is engaged in heavy investment in infrastructure …
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Climate Change poses a wide range of potentially very severe threats in China. This aggravates the existing … vulnerability of China and is one of the big challenges faced by the Chinese government. Adaptation programmes and projects are … being developed and implemented at national and local level. As China is engaged in heavy investment in infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423063
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted U- shaped relationship between temperature and TFP and...
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constructing maps of agricultural vulnerability in China. The results indicate that using multiple indicators is very practical for … provinces in China and will become more serious in the 2040s. It was also found that adaptive capacity was generally …
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China is now the world's biggest annual emitter of greenhouse gases with 7467 million tons (Mt) carbon dioxide … policy in China faces a range of challenges due to the biophysical complexity and heterogeneity of farming systems, as well …
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The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in … energy use and in energy supply and to assess the possible contribution of China and India to a future international climate … emissions by 50% in 2050. -- Climate Change ; China ; India ; Energy Efficiency ; Energy and Development …
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The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in … energy use and in energy supply and to assess the possible contribution of China and India to a future international climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128326
This paper presents ways for China to achieve its climate goals while also attain high-quality growth—growth that is … balanced, inclusive, and green. Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model that is calibrated to China, multiple …
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tariffs on Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China's own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its … really open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other, the inclusion of … the carbon contents of imported products. Meanwhile, being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs …
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the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as … suggest that China will be able to maintain a level of at least 3,000 kilocalories per day through 2010 to 2050. Overall …
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