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The economics of climate finance
(2017-04-24)
En el Acuerdo de Copenhague (2009), los países de desarrollados se comprometieron a movilizar 100.000 millones de dólares anuales para apoyar la acción climática en los países en desarrollo a partir de 2020. Desde entonces, ...
Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach
(Elsevier, 2017-06)
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and often conflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for the inclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) in decision making, as well as broad ...
Implications of switching fossil fuel subsidies to solar: A case study for the European Union
(MDPI, 2017)
Fossil fuel subsidies (FFS) constitute one of the most obvious barriers to tackling climate change, as they encourage inefficient energy consumption and divert investment away from clean energy sources. According to the ...
New coal-fired plants jeopardise paris agreement
(MDPI, 2017)
Global greenhouse gas emissions need to peak soon and be reduced practically to zero in the second half of this century in order to not exceed the climate targets adopted in the Paris Agreement. However, there are currently ...
Land markets, Property rights, and Deforestation: Insights from Indonesia
(Elsevier, 2017)
We examine the emergence of land markets and their effects on forest land appropriation by farm households in Jambi Province, Sumatra, using micro-level data covering land use and land transactions for a period of more ...
Historical energy price shocks and their changing effects on the economy
(Elsevier, 2017)
The purpose of this paper is to identify the changes in the impact of energy shocks on economic activity with an interest in assessing if an economy's vulnerability and resilience to shocks improved with economic ...
Recovery of lakes and coastal marine ecosystems from eutrophication: A global meta-analysis
(Wiley, 2017)
In order to inform policies aimed at reducing nutrient emissions to surface waters, it is essential to understand how aquatic ecosystems respond to eutrophication management. Using data from 89 studies worldwide, we examined ...
A global review of past land use, climate, and active vs. passive restoration effects on forest recovery
(PloS One, 2017)
Global forest restoration targets have been set, yet policy makers and land managers lack guiding principles on how to invest limited resources to achieve them. We conducted a meta-analysis of 166 studies in naturally ...
Anthropogenic ecosystem disturbance and the recovery debt
(Nature, 2017)
Ecosystem recovery from anthropogenic disturbances, either without human intervention or assisted by ecological restoration, is increasingly occurring worldwide. As ecosystems progress through recovery, it is important to ...
Understanding risks in the light of uncertainty: low-probability, high-impact coastal events in cities
(Environmental Research Letters, 2017-01-17)
A quantification of present and future mean annual losses due to extreme coastal events can be crucial for adequate decision making on adaptation to climate change in coastal areas around the globe. However, this approach ...