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Price relationships in the EU emissions trading system

Chevallier, Julien - HAL - 2010

developing countries, funding emissions cuts there instead, under a Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This … Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) delivers credits that may be used by European companies for their compliance needs …. Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) from CDM projects are credits flowing into the global compliance market generated through …

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Adaptation Advantage to Climate Change Impacts on Road Infrastructure in Africa through 2100

Chinowsky, Paul; Schweikert, Amy; Strzepek, Niko; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

The African continent is facing the potential of a US$183.6 billion liability to repair and maintain roads damaged from …

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Building world narratives for climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability analyses

Hallegatte, Stéphane; Valentin, Przyluski; … - HAL - 2011

The impacts of climate change on human systems depend not only on the level of emissions but also on how inherently vulnerable these systems are to the changing climate. The large uncertainties over future development and structure of societies and economies mean that the assessment of climate...

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ECONOMIC EXPERTISE AND DECISION-MAKING IN CONTROVERSIAL UNIVERSES

Godard, Olivier - HAL - 1996

There are two questions to be considered: a) to which extent the type of framing which may be appropriate for scientific explorations of some issues can also be relevant in a decisionmaking context, in which achieving an agreement among stakeholders is the key problem? b) what is the practical...

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Geoengineering as an alternative to mitigation: specification and dynamic implications

Sterck, Olivier - HAL - 2011

Geoengineering, i.e. the use of artificial techniques aiming at cooling the planet, is increasingly considered as a realistic alternative to emission mitigation. Several methods are promising for their capacity to quickly halt global warming at a moderate cost. Such cheap technologies might be...

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New Challanges for Industrial Policy

Naudé, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper calls for a fresh look at industrial policies in the light of recent trends and developments in the global economy. In particular, five new challenges and their implications for industrial policies are discussed. These have been neglected in the debate on industrial policy and include...

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Envisioning innovative groundwater regulation policies through scenario workshops in France and Portugal

Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel; Montginoul, Marielle; Varanda, Marta - HAL - 2012

Groundwater management policies will need to be revised in many Mediterranean countries, in light of the impact of climate change and the increasing demand for water. In this paper, we analyze stakeholder perceptions of three groundwater policy scenarios which respectively assume a strengthening...

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Power Ahead: Meeting Ethiopiaâ..s Energy Needs under a Changing Climate

Block, Paul - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Ethiopia is powering ahead with an ambitious energy development strategy, highly reliant on abundant hydropower potential. A changing climate, including uncertain water supply, however, may pose a salient challenge to meeting expected targets. Bridging the modeling gaps between climate, energy,...

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Climate Variability and Agricultural Productivity in MENA region

Drine, Imed - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The severity of climate-change impacts is related to the geographic and ecological particularity of the region. The majority of countries in the MENA region belong to the hydraulic poor regions located...

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Current Climate Variability and Future Climate Change: Estimated Growth and Poverty Impacts for Zambia

Thurlow, James; Diao, Xinshen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Economy-wide and hydrological-crop models are combined to estimate and compare the economic impacts of current climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. Accounting for uncertainty, simulation results indicate that, on average, current variability reduces gross...

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