Climate change is leading to a steady and significant rise in heat stress, posing growing threats to worker well-being, safety, and productivity, especially in jobs that require intense physical exertion. This report assesses the anticipated effects of heat stress on labour productivity and...

Climate change poses new challenges to the social mission and financial viability of microfinance institutions (MFIs). These include the vulnerability of borrowers, increased credit risks and the need to adapt to the changing climate. Using a novel microcredit data set, we first study the...

Climate change is macro-critical to Andorra: with (mostly winter) tourism accounting for one third of its economy, Andorra is directly exposed to climate change—shorter winter seasons, declining snow falls, higher costs from artificial snow making are all negatively affecting the economy’s...

This book invites the reader to follow seemingly unrelated paths towards the same goal: making sense of what it means to be human in a world that casually blends discourses on nature, technology, and biology with ideas of progress, optimization and their capitalization at the centre. The author...

It is well established that climate change affects productivity, but its effects on trade costs have not been studied. I combine international trade and weather data covering 190 years. I use an augmented gravity framework to show that rising temperatures at the origin or destination country...

It is well established that climate change affects productivity, but its effects on trade costs have not been studied. I combine international trade and weather data covering 190 years. I use an augmented gravity framework to show that rising temperatures at the origin or destination country...

Climate change indicators are a measurable and acceptable method of collecting evidence of changes in the Earth’s climate throughout time. Thus, climate change indicators capture the total impact of climate change on all economic activities and their participants. These indicators are used by...