We show that by maintaining ecosystems and associated ecosystem services, the practices favoured by these payments contribute directly and indirectly to climate change adaptation or mitigation policies.doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7462-8_21Driss Ezzine-de-Blas...
The dominant discourse in the corridors of climate power is not how to help developing countries become sufficiently wealthy to become full partners in climate action, instead it is the insistence on the responsibility of the West to keep the aid taps open and to fund any and all moves toward...
(BRUSSELS) –EU institutions finally agreed Monday evening on the EU’s budget for 2020, with climate change topping a list of priorities that focuses on growth and competitiveness, security and management of migration. Total commitments for the Budget are set at 168.7 billion – an increase...
Forestation can be a valuable tool for mitigating climate change. Using an Earth System Model, Moustakis et al. show that ambitious deployment in the range of country pledges can mitigate global temperature under an overshoot pathway by 0.2 oC, but highlight the associated socioeconomic tradeof...
As such, the task reflects an important element of climate change action, namely the trade-off between maximizing individual monetary utility and the reduction of negative externalities. Participants were also informed that one of the decisions would be selected at random and become relevant for ...
Individual actions—referred to as voluntary climate action (VCA)—are needed to reduce climate change’s harmful effects (Goeschl et al. 2020). VCA takes different forms on an individual level; however, one key unifying aspect of VCAs is that they necessitate incur a cost to the individual ...
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Diplomats from nearly 200 countries concluded two weeks of climate talks on Sunday by agreeing to establish a fund that would help poor, vulnerable countries… The decision on payments for loss and damage caused by global warming represented a breakthrough… the United States and other wealthy coun...
emissions. The Fund will focus on issuers driving the reduction of greenhouse gases and that provide solutions for the mitigation and/or adaptation of climate change, change risk or which are in the process of making their business models more resilient to the long-term risks of climate change ...
“I am very concerned for the future of the Western U.S., the U.S. as a whole and the world, especially because we are at such a critical moment for limiting catastrophic impacts from climate change,” Fu said. “However, history also shows that our action matters. We should not let...