We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past …, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that … aggregate infant deaths in Africa, due to extreme weather events and to maternal malaria in epidemic areas for 1981-2000 and …

Climate change must deal with two market failures, global warming and learning by doing in renewable use. The social … fixed proportion of world GDP. The climate externality is more severe than the learning by doing one. …

binding agreement in sight, also because the global climate regime and the global trade policy regime, represented by the WTO … magnitude of carbon leakage effects, likely to be induced by differences in climate mitigation policies, may be less than feared … in some circles. Trade policy, however, will play a role in implementing climate mitigation policies in two areas …

This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can …