Carbon pricing options for Taiwan
Annual greenhouse gas emissions in Taiwan reached a record high in 2017. Although estimates indicate that annual emissions have fallen since then, stronger action is needed for Taiwan to reach its 2050
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
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Imaginaries of development corridors: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa
Development corridors are focal points for national and international development investment in East Africa, and national governments are directing their limited public sector resources towards corridor
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
This paper examines the relationship between contemporaneous exposure to fine particulate matter and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind direction (within the
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The distributional effects of a carbon tax: the role of income inequality
The fact that a carbon tax is an environmentally and economically efficient instrument for reducing emissions is often highlighted, but the equity story is also of importance: who bears the burden of the
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Global trends in climate change litigation: 2020 snapshot
Climate change litigation has been growing in importance over the past three decades as a way of either advancing or delaying effective action on climate change. This report reviews key developments around
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Creating useful and usable weather and climate information: insights from Participatory Scenario Planning in Malawi
For weather and climate information to be used at the grassroots level, it needs to be effectively interpreted and communicated so that it is both useful and usable to decision-makers, farmers and local-level
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Emissions trading with rolling horizons
In this paper the authors develop a model to evaluate first, the market developments in the European Union emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) over 2008–2017 ex-post and second, the performances of main
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Emissions trading with rolling horizons
In this paper the authors develop a model to evaluate first, the market developments in the European Union emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) over 2008–2017 ex-post and second, the performances of main
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Carbon taxes and stranded assets: evidence from Washington state
Carbon pricing is the most cost-effective policy to address the climate challenge. Following the Paris Agreement, a first acceleration in the implementation of carbon pricing schemes has been observed
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Global trends in climate change litigation: 2019 snapshot
Climate action lawsuits against governments and corporations have spread across 28 countries, according to a new analysis. The study reveals that more than 1,300 legal actions concerning climate change