Billets marqués ‘ climate change ’

Foreign aid, green cities and buildings

24 mai 2013
Foreign aid, green cities and buildings

This paper attempts, first, to assess foreign aid effectiveness in fostering green city procedures in developing countries


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Climate change and carbon capture and storage

15 mai 2013

We study optimal carbon capture and storage (CCS), taking into account damages incurred from the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere and exhaustibility of fossil fuel reserves...


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Supply side climate policy and the green paradox

15 mai 2013

The focus of the green paradox literature has been either on demand-side climate policies or on effects of technological changes. The present paper addresses the question of whether there also might be some kind of green paradox related to supply-side policies, i.e. policies that permanently remove some of the carbon resources.


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Successful adaptation to climate change

14 mai 2013

What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management strategy, and on-the-ground adaptation planning activity is becoming more common-place, there is...
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What the United States and the United Kingdom can teach each other about climate change and sustainable development at the national level

3 mai 2013

As the urgency of climate change, biodiversity loss, severe poverty, and other global environmental and development challenges continues to grow, concerted international action to address them is becoming even harder. National efforts are thus more important than ever. An important example is the United Kingdom and the United States, which have stronger ties with...
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Comparative analysis of climate change vulnerability assessments: lessons from Tunisia and Indonesia

3 mai 2013

In an effort to provide some guidance on designing and conducting vulnerability assessments, this paper reviews and compares VAs undertaken in Indonesia and Tunisia to distill key approaches, components and lessons. It begins with a general overview of definitions, approaches and challenges with conducting VAs, and then proposes a framework for analyzing and comparing...
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Water and climate change in Africa : Challenges and community initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

3 mai 2013

Following an overview of the ways climate change is affecting three cities in Africa, this book discusses the equity and climate justice implications, and then gives examples of ways in which a range of local community organizations are extending their current activities to address these challenges, through innovative new programs and initiatives at the...
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Adaptation in Europe

2 mai 2013

Addressing risks and opportunities from climate change in the context of socio-economic developments


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Linking by degrees : incremental alignment of cap-and-trade markets

12 avril 2013

This RFF's paper introduces a two-tiered framework to guide policymakers, with an interest in North American policy outcomes. One tier discusses program elements that need to be aligned before trading of allowances across programs can occur. The second identifies benefits of incremental alignment of program elements even prior to trading between programs...


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Climate change and international trade

4 avril 2013

Rafael Leal-Arcas expertly examines the interface of climate change mitigation and international trade law with a view to addressing the question: How can we make best use of the international trading system experience to aim at a global climate change agreement?


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The Role of natural gas in a low-carbon Europe

3 avril 2013

In this paper, the authors use the Global Gas Model to analyze the perspectives and infrastructure needs of the Europe- an natural gas market until 2050.


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Trade and climate change

3 avril 2013

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the international community. Mitigating global warming and adapting to its consequences will require major economic investment and, above all, unequivocal determination on the part of all policymakers. This publication uniquely examines the intersection between trade and climate change from four different but correlated perspectives: the...
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Uncertainty and decision in climate change economics

2 avril 2013

We review the sources of uncertainty about all aspects of climate change and resolve these into various components, commenting on their relative importance. Then we review decision-making frameworks that are appropriate in the absence of quantitative probabilistic information, including non-probabilistic approaches and those based on multiple priors, and discuss their application in climate change...
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Low carbon development

29 mars 2013

This textbook addresses the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to the subject by drawing on insights from across the natural sciences and social sciences whilst embedding the...
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Economic ideas for a complex climate policy regime

11 mars 2013

This RFF's paper addresses three ways the standard model may inadequately anticipate the role of institutions in the actual implementation of climate policy: multilayered authority across jurisdictions, the impressionistic rather than deterministic influence of prices through subsidiary jurisdictions, and the complementary role of prices and regulation in this context


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