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Climate change produces future risks and increasing climate variability produces current risks. Reducing disaster risk is addressed at the national level using approaches usually developed by the United Nations. These approaches, particularly in the developed world, address resilience building...
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the impact of climate change on Philippine agriculture, evaluate mitigation and adaptation options, and formulate …) baseline; b) intensified adaptation; and c) combined adaptation and mitigation scenarios. The findings reveal that without … vulnerability. Meanwhile, adoption of intensified adaptive and mitigation measures shows potential for improved resilience …
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This study investigates the impact of climate change on intimate partner violence in Bangladesh and shows that policy can mitigate much if not all of the harmful consequences of climate shocks on women. Utilizing a novel dataset linking geo-referenced meteorological remote-sensed data with...
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Interrelated global crises - climate change, pandemics, loss of ecosystem services and biodiversity - pose risks that demand collective solutions. Uncertainty about others' behavior, coupled with the dependence on some to take collective efforts to mitigate risks for all (e.g. conservation of...
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This paper reviews the role of Social Protection and Labor in supporting both climate adaptation and mitigation efforts … through the distributional impacts of climate mitigation policies. The paper discusses how - even without explicit … transitions towards Green jobs. Finally, Social protection and labor programs can also directly support mitigation measures by …
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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
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channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a vital role in driving effective climate change mitigation and … document the existing evidence on the impacts of climate change damages, and the effects of climate change mitigation and … of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also …
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Funding developing countries' climate policies after Cancun (COP16) has a dual goal: firstly, to support mitigation of … damages, mitigation, or adaptation costs, may cause fundamental changes in the countries' strategic behaviour concerning … mitigation and adaptation efforts. Moreover, some of the instruments fall short of a minimum requirement for the donors to …
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Food security in China affects the livelihood and well-being of one-fifth of the world population. Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops...
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emissions mitigation. However, the contribution of emissions mitigation projects to the central development objective of poverty … effective. Adaptation to climate change can be expected to have higher synergies with poverty alleviation than mitigation …
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