Adaptation and Mitigation in Long-Term Climate Policies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Bréchet ◽  
Natalia Hritonenko ◽  
Yuri Yatsenko
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policies ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Governance of adaptation: Proposing a process model for managing long-term climate policies

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (50) ◽  
pp. 502024
Author(s):  
Kim Van Nieuwaal ◽  
P Driessen ◽  
T Spit ◽  
K Termeer
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Climate Policies

Discounting under Risk

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Maddalena Ferranna
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discount Rate ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Discount Rate ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ramsey Rule ◽  
Climate Damages

The debate on the economics of climate change has focused primarily on the choice of the social discount rate, which plays a key role in determining the desirability of climate policies given the long-term impacts of climate damages. Discounted utilitarianism and the Ramsey Rule dominate the debate on discounting. The chapter examines the appropriateness of the utilitarian framework for evaluating public policies. More specifically, it focuses on the risky dimension of climate change, and on the failure of utilitarianism in expressing both concerns for the distribution of risks across the population and concerns for the occurrence of catastrophic outcomes. The chapter shows how a shift to the prioritarian paradigm is able to capture those types of concerns, and briefly sketches the main implications for the choice of the social discount rate.

Tourism and climate change in Mauritius: assessing the adaptation and mitigation plans and prospects

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roopanand Mahadew ◽  
Krishnee Adnarain Appadoo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which Mauritius has structured its adaptation to and mitigation of the climate change and its effects on the tourism industry based on the UNEP framework on tourism and climate change. Design/methodology/approach The UNEP framework is used as a guideline based on which an assessment of the various policies, laws or regulations existent in Mauritius is carried out. Findings The paper highlights the significant lacunas that exist in Mauritius with regard to this subject matter with measures taken in good faith but not structured and oriented enough to meet long-term goals. Originality/value This paper adds to the meagre literature that exists in Mauritius on the legal or normative framework that exists in Mauritius concerning climate change and the tourism industry.

Prospects for climate change in 2021

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Better Than

Significance US re-entry into the Paris Agreement will signal renewed climate engagement by Washington. Prospects for climate cooperation are better than they seemed a year ago, with net-zero targets being more widely adopted, alongside long-term ambition statements. Credibility will depend on substantial changes in near-term climate policies and the pursuit of ‘green recoveries’.

Long-Term Development Perspectives of Sub-Saharan Africa under Climate Policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Leimbach ◽  
Niklas Roming ◽  
Anselm Schultes ◽  
Gregor Schwerhoff
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Sub Saharan

The influence of lobbying on climate policies; or, why the world might fail

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. V. Pezzey
Keyword(s):  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

How can the malign and growing influence of lobbying on global climate policies be checked? In this short piece I link some wide-ranging suggestions for academic research by environment and development economists that is needed to further this aim, with the key idea in Acemoglu and Robinson's (2012) Why Nations Fail. Their book argues strongly that sustained, very long-term economic growth through national industrial revolutions requires ‘inclusive institutions’ that distribute political power broadly over a nation's economic, class and geographical sectors. This is because long-term growth needs technical innovations, which cause creative destruction (structural adjustment) of existing technologies, which in turn harms the interests of existing elites. If elites are too powerful, they will block new technologies, so as to keep their powers to extract rents from the rest of society, and the nation will then fail (to grow sustainably).

scholarly journals How consistent are alternative short-term climate policies with long-term goals?

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Bosetti ◽  
Marzio Galeotti ◽  
Alessandro Lanza
Keyword(s):  
Short Term ◽  
Climate Policies

Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Aspects of Forests in India - An Overview

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Tajinder Singh ◽  
R.S. Rawat ◽  
V.R.S. Rawat
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change is recognized as a significant man-made global environmental challenge and it is also treated as threat. It may alter the distribution and quality of natural resources. Considering the vulnerabilities of forests and irreversible impacts of climate change on forests, long term planning for forest conservation and management is the urgent need of the hour to ensure and maintain the long-term mitigation potential of forests. In this study multi-disciplinary literature review, interviews with researchers in a variety of related fields, and consultation meetings with selected practitioners at the national, regional, and local levels were conducted. The findings of study highlighted the current status of knowledge, strengths, gaps and constraints in research pertaining to climate change adaptation and mitigation aspects of forests in India.

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