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Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions

Hertel, Thomas W.; Lobell, David B. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 562-575

In this paper we discuss the scope of the adaptation challenge facing world agriculture in the coming decades. Due to rising temperatures throughout the tropics, pressures for adaptation will be greatest in some of the poorest parts of the world where the adaptive capacity is least abundant. We...

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Innovation and the dynamics of global warming

Winter, Ralph A. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 68 (2014) 1, pp. 124-140

Global warming and the carbon cycle are a dynamic system with positive feedbacks. Fossil fuels are exhaustible resources. These two facts mean that innovation in clean energy technology, rather than mitigating global warming, can lead to a permanently higher temperature path. This paper explores...

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Transboundary pollution and clean technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita - In: Resource and Energy Economics 36 (2014) 2, pp. 601-619

Within a non-cooperative transboundary pollution game, we investigate the impact of the adoption of a cleaner technology (i.e., a decrease in the emission to output ratio). We show that countries may respond by increasing their emissions resulting in an increase in the stock of pollution that...

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Competitive Cities and Climate Change

Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2009

Cities are part of the climate change problem, but they are also a key part of the solution. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how cities and metropolitan regions can change the way we think about responding to climate change. Cities consume the vast majority of global energy and...

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Greening Growth in Japan

Capozza, Ivana - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011

A decade of sluggish economic growth, concluding with the sharpest recession since the Second World War, has underlined the need for Japan to develop a new growth model. Such a model should restore public finances and long-term growth while preserving environmental quality and ensuring a...

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Public Interventions and Private Climate Finance Flows: Empirical Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing

Haščič, Ivan; Rodríguez, Miguel Cárdenas; Jachnik, … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2015

This study uses a unique dataset of investment flows to analyse the role of two categories of public interventions (finance and policies) in mobilising flows of private climate finance worldwide and in the more specific context of flows to and in developing countries. The objectives are...

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Climate mitigation and adaptation in Africa : evidence from patent data

Haščič, Ivan; Silva, Jérôme; Johnstone, Nick - 2012

This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in … disproportionately directed towards mitigation and adaptation technologies. In addition, the rate of international co-invention for most … mitigation and adaptation technologies is much higher in Africa than in the rest of the world. And finally, rates of protection …

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The empirics of enabling investment and innovation in renewable energy

Ang, Geraldine; Röttgers, Dirk; Burli, Pralhad - 2017

This working paper undertakes econometric analysis to assess the impacts of climate mitigation policies and the quality … how countries’ investment environments interact with climate mitigation policies to influence investment and patent … beyond setting climate mitigation policies, policy makers need to strengthen the general investment environment and align it …

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Urban climate adaptation and leadership : from conceptual understanding to practical action

Carmin, JoAnn; Dodman, David; Chu, Eric - 2013

The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban adaptation that emerged from the discussions...

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Enhancing Developing Country Access to Eco-Innovation : The Case of Technology Transfer and Climate Change in a Post-2012 Policy Framework

Ockwell, David; Watson, Jim; Mallett, Alexandra; Haum, … - 2010

The deployment of eco-innovations in developing countries is a key driver of their contribution to efficiently addressing global environmental challenges. It is also a key driver of markets for eco-innovation and sustainable economic development. This report explores the barriers developing...

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