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annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have …
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In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
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This paper hypothesizes that adaptation to climate change is influenced by the gender of the decision maker of the … household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male …-headed households are examined. A multinomial logit model is used to examine factors determining adaptation choices by gender. Findings …
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liberalization welfare impacts under climate change, and its ability to provide mitigation and/or adaptation to potential losses. Our …
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Maroc Vert, helps in agricultural adaptation to climate change and uncertainty. We develop a regionalized Morocco Computable … 2050, and introduced with respect to a 2003 baseline. With no adaptation, GDP impacts range from -3.1 per cent (worst … contraction in economic aggregates. Accounting for the adaptation measures in the Plan Maroc Vert, the GDP impacts from climate …
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The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The study utilizes a quantitative approach for...
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sizeable and should motivate for action in terms of both mitigation and consideration and funding of potential adaptation …
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change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded policy-driven adaptation investments Ethiopia's GDP in the 2040s … will be up to 10 percent below the counterfactual no-climate change baseline. Suitably scaled adaptation measures could … change. -- CGE analysis ; global warming ; growth ; adaptation costs ; development …
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Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet although Rwanda and Burundi share several important characteristics, the social,...
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for climate finance. The distinction also cuts against the need to holistically consider developmental, adaptation, and … mitigation policies and naturally focuses on government-to-government flows despite the manifest need to catalyse non …
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