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The Cancún Agreements formalise a collective commitment by developed countries to provide new and additional funding for action on climate change in developing countries both in the short- and longer-term. This collective financial commitment requires a system to measure, report and verify...
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The paper analyzes the strategic behavior of several countries engaged in capital accumulation, pollution mitigation …, and environmental adaptation in the context of an environmental common good. Both cooperative and non … to over-production, over-consumption, over-pollution, and over-adaptation. …
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This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
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environmental poli-cies can be improved. The policy cycle is applied to climate policies, both mitigation and adaptation and we …
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potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change is a private good, benefiting only the country or the individual that … invests in adaptation. We use a one-shot public-goods game that deviates from the standard public-goods game by introducing a …
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. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a …. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is …Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option …
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effective. Adaptation to climate change can be expected to have higher synergies with poverty alleviation than mitigation … emissions mitigation. However, the contribution of emissions mitigation projects to the central development objective of poverty …
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adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity-building to analyse the optimal portfolio of … investments in mitigation followed by large adaptation expenditures a few decades later. Hence, the possibility to adapt does not …
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, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …
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