Climate Change, Pollution Droughts and Agriculture

Climate Change and Agriculture

concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) by some 30 percent since the industrial revolution, and that rise continues at a rate of approximately 0.4 percent per year. Despite its seemingly minute concentration (only 0.035 percent), CO 2 inhibits the escape of longwave (thermal) radiation emitted by the earth throughout the entire atmosphere, a process known as the “greenhouse effect.” The presenc...

Climate Change and Agriculture Reconsidered

Despite the existence of a large and growing literature on the potential impact of climate change on agriculture, there still exists some disagreement about the magnitude and even the sign. Our own research suggests that the impact on U.S. agriculture is likely to be strongly negative, based on a series of studies in which we link farmland values to climate variables, and crop yields to both cl...

Climate Change, Agriculture and Poverty

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Air Pollution and Climate Change

Air Pollution and Climate Change

Reducing black carbon emissions benefits both climate and health 4 Research concludes that reducing black carbon emissions would prevent millions of premature deaths as well as helping meet climate change mitigation targets. Do climate policies need a ‘pollution safety margin’? 5 Climate change policies may need to make greater GHG reductions in order to accommodate the warming of reduced air p...