Shaping National Climate Change Legislation in Uganda, May 2015
... Agricultural Policy identifies climate change as one of the emerging threats to agricultural productivity and sustainability of farmer livelihoods. The Policy promotes climate smart agricultural practices. In addition, one of the strategies mentioned in the Policy is to develop capacity at all level ...
... Agricultural Policy identifies climate change as one of the emerging threats to agricultural productivity and sustainability of farmer livelihoods. The Policy promotes climate smart agricultural practices. In addition, one of the strategies mentioned in the Policy is to develop capacity at all level ...
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... Climate change is one of the major global policy issues and has been on the policy agenda for more than two decades. The consensus view nowadays predicts an average increase in global temperature of at least 4 degrees centigrade and up to 6 degrees centigrade until the end of this century, if no mea ...
... Climate change is one of the major global policy issues and has been on the policy agenda for more than two decades. The consensus view nowadays predicts an average increase in global temperature of at least 4 degrees centigrade and up to 6 degrees centigrade until the end of this century, if no mea ...
Climate Change: Current Issues and Policy Tools
... vulnerable. Adaptations can moderate the impacts and expand opportunities, but at a cost. Besides the overall costs of climate change, key concerns include the distributional effects within and across generations, how to value ecological impacts, and the potential for abrupt and irreversible changes ...
... vulnerable. Adaptations can moderate the impacts and expand opportunities, but at a cost. Besides the overall costs of climate change, key concerns include the distributional effects within and across generations, how to value ecological impacts, and the potential for abrupt and irreversible changes ...
Adaptation
... Mitigation halves adaptation effort (wrt adaptation alone). Still adaptation expendiure non negligible. ...
... Mitigation halves adaptation effort (wrt adaptation alone). Still adaptation expendiure non negligible. ...
F_Green_Nationally_Self_Interested_Climate_Change_Mitigation (opens in new window)
... In order to facilitate debate among rationalist scholars about the costs and benefits of mitigation action on common terms, this paper adopts an economic efficiency conception of self-interest standardly used in rationalist scholarship (Stavins et al. 2014, 1012): Nationally self-interested action: ...
... In order to facilitate debate among rationalist scholars about the costs and benefits of mitigation action on common terms, this paper adopts an economic efficiency conception of self-interest standardly used in rationalist scholarship (Stavins et al. 2014, 1012): Nationally self-interested action: ...
Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation?
... impact sectors such as water resources (see, for example, Wilby, 2005). It is also important to recognize that when considering adaptation, climate is only one of many processes that influence outcomes, sometimes important in certain decision contexts, other times not (Adger et al., 2007). Many of t ...
... impact sectors such as water resources (see, for example, Wilby, 2005). It is also important to recognize that when considering adaptation, climate is only one of many processes that influence outcomes, sometimes important in certain decision contexts, other times not (Adger et al., 2007). Many of t ...
04 Morlot.P65
... international effort on avoiding dangerous climate change and stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. In this light, the consideration of long-term goals to guide policy is not an option but an integral part of the Convention and of future negotiations. Yet a practical interpreta ...
... international effort on avoiding dangerous climate change and stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. In this light, the consideration of long-term goals to guide policy is not an option but an integral part of the Convention and of future negotiations. Yet a practical interpreta ...
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... the latter and apply methods used to study consumer choices in the presence of risk aversion in other realms in the area of assessing climate change damage4. Developing case studies to obtain empirical data suitable for calibrating risk premium in the context of adaptation and mitigation is certainl ...
... the latter and apply methods used to study consumer choices in the presence of risk aversion in other realms in the area of assessing climate change damage4. Developing case studies to obtain empirical data suitable for calibrating risk premium in the context of adaptation and mitigation is certainl ...
Public views on climate change: European and USA Perspectives
... In other words, there is an overall acknowledgement that achieving practical steps to address climate change will demand some difficult political, social and individual choices, which actors at different levels of decision-making are currently trying to make sense of. Even the Intergovernmental Pane ...
... In other words, there is an overall acknowledgement that achieving practical steps to address climate change will demand some difficult political, social and individual choices, which actors at different levels of decision-making are currently trying to make sense of. Even the Intergovernmental Pane ...
Peter Lee: Ethics of Climate Change Policy
... ethical argument by either deliberately or inadvertently overlooking alternative perspectives. The two approaches that will be used in making ethical assessments in the sections to follow attach different levels of importance to the ‘ends’ or outcomes that are being pursued – say, saving the world f ...
... ethical argument by either deliberately or inadvertently overlooking alternative perspectives. The two approaches that will be used in making ethical assessments in the sections to follow attach different levels of importance to the ‘ends’ or outcomes that are being pursued – say, saving the world f ...
Preserving the Ocean Circulation: Implications for Climate Policy
... gases. One benefit of this method is that the choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level is motivated by a threshold response in the natural system. This choice is likely more efficient in the sense of an optimal growth model than an arbitrary choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level. This app ...
... gases. One benefit of this method is that the choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level is motivated by a threshold response in the natural system. This choice is likely more efficient in the sense of an optimal growth model than an arbitrary choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level. This app ...
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... causes of climate change (greenhouse gases) are invisible, its impacts are geographically and temporally distant for most Americans, and, as discussed below, its signals are hard to detect (NRC, 2009; Moser, 2009). Unlike a heat wave or a hurricane, climate change is not a single hazard. A small num ...
... causes of climate change (greenhouse gases) are invisible, its impacts are geographically and temporally distant for most Americans, and, as discussed below, its signals are hard to detect (NRC, 2009; Moser, 2009). Unlike a heat wave or a hurricane, climate change is not a single hazard. A small num ...
The costs of adaptation: Working Paper 7 (260 kB) (opens in new window)
... publication in academic journals. It has been reviewed by at least one internal referee before publication. The views expressed in this paper represent those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the host institutions or funders. ...
... publication in academic journals. It has been reviewed by at least one internal referee before publication. The views expressed in this paper represent those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the host institutions or funders. ...
On the moral differences between mitigation and adaptation
... It should be noted thatthis assumption speaksof an asymmetry specifically regarding the distribution of burdens. In other respects there are clearly morally significant differences between adaptation and mitigation. Let us provide a couple of examples. Adaptation ...
... It should be noted thatthis assumption speaksof an asymmetry specifically regarding the distribution of burdens. In other respects there are clearly morally significant differences between adaptation and mitigation. Let us provide a couple of examples. Adaptation ...
full text - MODUL University Vienna
... When talking about direct impacts of climate change on tourism, one of the most essential motivators for travelling is meant: the climate. Climate is one of the major attractors for tourists to travel to a specific destination. Realizing this fact, one can grasp the enormous sensitivity of the touri ...
... When talking about direct impacts of climate change on tourism, one of the most essential motivators for travelling is meant: the climate. Climate is one of the major attractors for tourists to travel to a specific destination. Realizing this fact, one can grasp the enormous sensitivity of the touri ...
Scenario
... Most scenarios of the future suggest that the world will get more populated and wealthier during this century. While this ought to advance human well-being, it may also increase climate change which might at least partly offset any advances in well-being. The IPCC reports in its last (2001) assessme ...
... Most scenarios of the future suggest that the world will get more populated and wealthier during this century. While this ought to advance human well-being, it may also increase climate change which might at least partly offset any advances in well-being. The IPCC reports in its last (2001) assessme ...
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... emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions would need to be complemented by at least some adaptation to the effects of climate change. Pielke et al (2007, p. 597), for example, state that ‘during early policy discussions on climate change in the 1980s, adaptation was understood to be an imp ...
... emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions would need to be complemented by at least some adaptation to the effects of climate change. Pielke et al (2007, p. 597), for example, state that ‘during early policy discussions on climate change in the 1980s, adaptation was understood to be an imp ...
On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks
... of the dismal theorem in the first two categories show that the framework Weitzman employed is not robust to plausible changes in the assumptions of the modeling. However in both these cases, I demonstrate that the intellectual content of the dismal theorem can be reinstated by appropriate extensions ...
... of the dismal theorem in the first two categories show that the framework Weitzman employed is not robust to plausible changes in the assumptions of the modeling. However in both these cases, I demonstrate that the intellectual content of the dismal theorem can be reinstated by appropriate extensions ...
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... and precautionary abatement by developing a modelling framework that integrates mitigation, adaptation, and catastrophic climate change risk into a macroeconomic, hybrid IAM. We assume that countries do not sign a global agreement on emission reduction, but they perceive the risk that future global ...
... and precautionary abatement by developing a modelling framework that integrates mitigation, adaptation, and catastrophic climate change risk into a macroeconomic, hybrid IAM. We assume that countries do not sign a global agreement on emission reduction, but they perceive the risk that future global ...
August 2012 - CREE
... generation, either within the generation living today or in the future, see Kverndokk and Rose (2008). Two examples of this can be: who would suffer from climate change (inaction), and how should the burdens of mitigation (action) be distributed? In the years to come, the world may face large climat ...
... generation, either within the generation living today or in the future, see Kverndokk and Rose (2008). Two examples of this can be: who would suffer from climate change (inaction), and how should the burdens of mitigation (action) be distributed? In the years to come, the world may face large climat ...
Overall scientific concept with short-term and long
... face in reacting to climate change induced consequences, to the economic and ethical evaluation of different coping strategies and the definition of the underlying evaluative frameworks. This wide range perfectly matches the interdisciplinary approach of the DK, which will draw on first hand experti ...
... face in reacting to climate change induced consequences, to the economic and ethical evaluation of different coping strategies and the definition of the underlying evaluative frameworks. This wide range perfectly matches the interdisciplinary approach of the DK, which will draw on first hand experti ...
A Question of Balance - Yale Economics
... Chapter 2 provides a verbal description of the DICE model. Chapter 3 provides a detailed description of the model’s equations. The actual equations of the model are presented in the Appendix. Chapter 4 describes the alternative policies that are analyzed in the computer runs. These include everythin ...
... Chapter 2 provides a verbal description of the DICE model. Chapter 3 provides a detailed description of the model’s equations. The actual equations of the model are presented in the Appendix. Chapter 4 describes the alternative policies that are analyzed in the computer runs. These include everythin ...
Explaining Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policies
... from carbon tax to international carbon trading scheme, the other policy sets included policies which were not only impractical but also stretched assumptions about the respondents‟ knowledge to give a meaningful response. Solutions such as „Putting more dust in the atmosphere‟ or „Reducing air poll ...
... from carbon tax to international carbon trading scheme, the other policy sets included policies which were not only impractical but also stretched assumptions about the respondents‟ knowledge to give a meaningful response. Solutions such as „Putting more dust in the atmosphere‟ or „Reducing air poll ...
Climate Change and US Interests
... on the appropriate U.S. response, however, remains elusive. While the new focus on climate change suggests that the United States may play a key role in attempts to negotiate a new international agreement to reduce global emissions,2 there is serious debate in academic and policy circles over whethe ...
... on the appropriate U.S. response, however, remains elusive. While the new focus on climate change suggests that the United States may play a key role in attempts to negotiate a new international agreement to reduce global emissions,2 there is serious debate in academic and policy circles over whethe ...
Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change
... One critique remains: The climate change damage estimates as presented by Pearce et al. (1996) are to a large extent based on older, perhaps outdated climate and climate impact studies. Although the social cost chapter qualifies the estimates, the estimates were not adjusted. An important reason is ...
... One critique remains: The climate change damage estimates as presented by Pearce et al. (1996) are to a large extent based on older, perhaps outdated climate and climate impact studies. Although the social cost chapter qualifies the estimates, the estimates were not adjusted. An important reason is ...