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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Conven­tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was marked by multiple crises and the shaken confidence of developing countries in the multilateral process. Nonetheless, an agreement was reached on...
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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Conven­tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was marked by multiple crises and the shaken confidence of developing countries in the multilateral process. Nonetheless, an agreement was reached on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225586
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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Does a more unequal society emit more CO2? The nexus between carbon emissions and income inequality has been at the core of a vast literature, which has yielded conflicting results. Leveraging panel econometric techniques, we provide robust evidence of a non-linear relationship that depends on...
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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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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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used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … mitigating and adapting to climate change. The paper attempts to examine the successful cases where agricultural mitigation of …
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This paper uses a global integrated assessment model to assess how developing Asia, the world's fastest-growing source of carbon emissions, could transition to low-carbon growth. It finds that national net-zero pledges do not have a high chance of keeping peak warming below 2êC. Under an...
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