Climate change and developing country interests: Cases from the Zambezi River Basin

Channing Arndt, Paul S. Chinowsky, Charles Fant, Yohannes Gebretsadik, James E. Neumann, Sergey Paltsev, Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow

No wp-2015-116, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows for rigorous comparison of climate, biophysical, and economic outcomes across global mitigation regimes. We find that effective global mitigation policies generate two sources of benefit. First, less distorted climate outcomes result in typically more favourable economic outcomes.

Keywords: Climate change; Global mitigation; Developing countries; Growth; Climate uncertainty; Environment and climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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