Gauging economic consensus on climate change
The authors conducted a large-sample global survey on climate economics, which we sent to all economists who have published climate-related research in the field’s highest-ranked academic journals; 738
Climate Economics
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Pacific faces big economic losses from climate change: ADB
SYDNEY: The Pacific region faces serious economic losses due to climate change and it is critical that nations causing the problem step in to help, the Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday. A new
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A big leap for Kolkata's carbon-neutral dream
Believe it or not, Kolkata's energy efficiency has doubled since the turn of the century and is projected to increase by two times in the next 12 years. Though the city's energy consumption has nearly
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U.S. to oppose mechanism to fund climate change adaptation in poor nations
Internal briefing paper accessed by The Hindu shows U.S. wants to promote its tech firms In an internal briefing paper prepared for its diplomats across the world before the Warsaw climate negotiations, which The Hindu accessed, the U.S. has opposed the setting up of a separate mechanism on ‘loss and damage’. It has also pushed primarily for the role of private investments and finance to enable the poor countries to adapt to climate change.
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Developing world’s firm ‘no’ to market-based mechanism
Poland, the hosts for the U.N. Climate talks this year, and the EU came in for some harsh opposition from many developing countries, including India, for promoting the idea that the talks must deliver
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Funding for Tackling Climate Change to Top Warsaw Agenda
A ministerial dialogue will be held at the summit to devise a strategy that will ensure funding from private and public sources for tackling climate change An effort to provide developing countries with funds to tackle climate change and its adverse impacts will be on top of the agenda at the UN-sponsored climate change meet in Warsaw.
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India among world economies at risk of climate change impact
LONDON: India is among the "extreme risk" countries of the world where economic impacts of climate change will be most keenly felt by 2025, according to new research released on Wedesday. Kolkata and Mumbai
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Three US states, British Columbia to ink climate pact
California governor Jerry Brown said on Thursday he plans to sign an agreement to formally align the state's climate and clean energy policies with those of Oregon, Washington state and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Brown will host the governors of the northwestern states and British Columbia's environment minister in San Francisco on Monday to announce the partnership and details of an agreement aligning their climate strategies.
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The climate casino: risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world
Unless there is either a major slowdown in economic growth, or strong steps to curb CO2 emissions sharply, we can expect continued accumulations of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere – and the resulting global warming with all its consequences says William Nordhaus in this new book published by Yale University Press.
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Economics of climate change in East Asia
This regional study includes the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Mongolia and examines how strategies for adapting to climate change up to 2050 can be combined with measures
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India goes downhill on energy efficiency and emissions
Policy on climate change should highlight economic and security cost of missed targets India is doing poorly on the energy front in a way which is not commonly realised. The popular narrative is that it is misleading to look at the energy consumption and emissions of a country without taking into consideration its size (population) and per capita incomes. Hence India may be one of the largest polluters in the world but in terms of per capita energy consumption, income and emissions, it is way down in the global league table.