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International tourism, exchange rate, and renewable energy : do they boost or burden efforts towards a low carbon economy in selected African countries?

Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; Adusah-Poku, Frank; Kwakwa, Paul Adjei - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

Africa continues to suffer from the effects of climate change in many ways. Records show that the continent's carbon … energy development, as well as exchange rate fluctuations in Africa, the study assesses the impact of international tourism …, exchange rate, and renewable energy on CO2 emissions of seven most visited countries in Africa. Carbon dioxide emission was …

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Chapter 60 Past Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture

Mendelsohn, Robert - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 3009-3031). 2007

This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 and 2000. Accumulating greenhouse gases have caused global temperatures to rise approximately 0.25 °C during this period and for precipitation patterns to shift. Using...

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Chapter 21. Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Popp, David; Newell, Richard G.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2010

Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...

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The curse of bad geography : stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital

Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023

Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...

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Cooperation and competition in climate change policies : mitigation and climate engineering when countries are asymmetric

Manoussi, Vassiliki; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2014

We study a dynamic game of climate policy design in terms of emissions and solar radiation management (SRM) involving two heterogeneous regions or countries. Countries emit greenhouse gasses (GHGs), and can block incoming radiation by unilateral SRM activities, thus reducing global temperature....

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Publication bias in measuring climate sensitivity

Havránková, Zuzana; Reckova, Dominika - 2015

We present a meta-regression analysis of the relation between the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and changes in global temperature. The relation is captured by "climate sensitivity", which measures the response to a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations compared to...

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Optimal carbon dioxide removal in face of ocean carbon sink feedback

Manoussi, Vassiliki; Shayegh, Soheil; Tavoni, Massimo - 2017

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a potentially important climate strategy for attaining low climate stabilization objectives. However, climate analysis has indicated a possible weakening of the ocean carbon sinks -the largest in the world- in relation to CDR deployment. Here, we provide an...

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An analysis of water security under climate change

Cappelli, Federica - 2017

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal distribution of resources, competition among its uses, ecosystems conservation, climate-related disasters and risks and several other aspects. The water security approach manages such...

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The economics of greenhouse gas mitigation in developing Asia

Reis, Lara Aleluia; Emmerling, Johannes; Tavoni, Massimo; … - 2016

Developing Asia has the world's fastest greenhouse gas emissions growth. This study uses an economy-energy-climate model to assess the effects of Paris Agreement pledges on Asia, in comparison with business as usual (BAU) and more ambitious scenarios. Results confirm that pledges must be...

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Climate change and Kuznets curve : Portuguese experience

Leitão, Nuno Carlos - 2018

Climate change has inspired the interest of the academic community in the most diverse areas of knowledge. This study tests and revisits the environmental Kuznets curve assumptions for Portugal. The econometric strategy used in this research is time series (ARIMA model, OLS estimator, ARCH...

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