Climate adaptation strategies are carried out at different levels from public to private, however, less is known about how public adaptation investment affects individual choices of adaptation. Also

This project tackles the problem of distributional impacts of environmental regulations on producers. We decompose the sources of firm heterogeneity into cost structure and market power in the context

Unsustainable production and consumption patterns have resulted in climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, highlighting the urgent need for substantial changes to promote human well-being

Carbon pricing needs to be a cornerstone policy to reach the Paris Climate Agreement. A common concern for introducing even moderate adjustments to prices is related to the possible adverse (or

Over the last 20 years, there has been a rapid expansion of gold mining in Colombia. The objective of this proposal is to investigate the impacts of this boom on local socioeconomic and environmental

Local governments in middle-income countries have promoted the installation of containers to increase the collection of materials with potential for recycling. However, the level of collected

One of the main obstacles in many countries for an effective climate policy is opposition to climate pricing. This is often based on views concerning distributional fairness between different groups

A uniform global carbon price is a cost-minimizing way to achieve CO2 emission reductions. However, the climate externality is not the only one from the use of fossil fuels, and this implies that the

Carbon pricing and fossil fuel price subsidy reforms will have distributional implications. Kept unmanaged, they will have the power to stop reforms, frequently proven in the past. While it has been

Without phasing out global coal capacities in the power sector, international climate targets will likely be out of reach. Scenario analyses of optimal mitigation pathways consistently emphasize the