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Agriculture in the climate change negotiations; ensuring that food production is not threatened
Animal, 2013 With the human population predicted to reach nine billion by 2050, demand for food is predicted to more than double over this time period, a trend which will lead to increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture.
J. Muldowney, J. Mounsey, L. Kinsella
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Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2017 Since the majority of network concession contracts in Germany were set to expire some time between 2005 and 2016, a window of opportunity arose in which to rebuild and remunicipalise the local energy supply. As a result, 72 new local power companies were
Oliver Wagner, Kurt Berlo
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On interactions of optimal climate policy and international trade. An assessment of border carbon measures. [PDF]
Not only after the failure of the Copenhagen climate conference 2009, border carbon adjustment (BCA) has received growing attention in the climate policy debate as a measure to combat "carbon leakage" and force non-abating countries to tighter climate ...
Bucher, Raphael, Schenker, Oliver
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This open access book is looking into ways to achieve just climate policy within a country. The authors of this monograph share a unique, timely and original vision: continuous support for climate policy is more likely to emerge when citizens find that the distribution of the bill for climate costs is fair.
de Vries, Annick +5 more
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U.S. Climate Policy Developments [PDF]
This paper outlines recent developments in U.S. climate policies. Although the United States does not participate in the Kyoto Mechanism, a number of climate policies are being implemented at state level as well as at the federal level.
Alan J. Krupnick +3 more
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Book review: climate policy after Copenhagen [PDF]
, 2011 Karsten Neuhoff’s compact contribution aims to scope the role of and recent experience with carbon pricing, and provides all the reasons why a global carbon pricing scheme is a truly formidable undertaking, finds Dominic ...
Moran, Dominic
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Endogenous Discounting and Climate Policy [PDF]
Under risk of abrupt climate change, the occurrence hazard is added to the social discount rate. As a result, the social discount rate (i) increases and (ii) turns endogenous to the global warming policy.
Tsur, Yacov, Zemel, Amos
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Gender mainstreaming and EU climate change policy [PDF]
, 2014 This article uses feminist institutionalism to examine how gender mainstreaming has been sidelined in European Union (EU) climate change policy. It finds that, with a few exceptions largely emanating from the European Parliament's Committee on Women's ...
Allwood, G
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Uncertainty and climate change policy [PDF]
The paper consists of a summary of the main sources of uncertainty about climate change, and a discussion of the major implications for economic analysis and the formulation of climate policy. Uncertainty typically implies that the optimal policy is more
John Quiggin
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Communications Earth & EnvironmentDisruptions in global food and energy trade can trigger cascading socio-economic losses. Financial markets can amplify such losses and generate systemic cross-sectoral effects, e.g. food insecurity.
Cornelia Auer +7 more
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