Climate Change

Understanding the interactions between emissions trading systems and renewable energy standards using a multi-regional CGE model of China

Many countries have introduced policy measures, such as carbon pricing, greenhouse gas offsetting mechanisms, renewable energy standards, and energy efficiency improvements, to achieve their climate change mitigation targets.

Publication Date: 
03/08/2017
Ying Fan, Jie Wu, Govinda Timilsina, Yan Xia
The World Bank
Tags:
Emissions Trading, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, China, Green House Gases
Climate Change

Potential hydrologic changes in the Amazon by the end of the 21st century and the groundwater buffer

This study contributes to the discussions on the future of the Amazon rainforest under a projected warmer-drier climate from the perspectives of land hydrology. Using IPCC HadGEM2-ES simulations of the present and future Amazon climate to drive a land hydrology model that accounts for groundwater constraint on land drainage, we assess potential hydrologic changes in soil water, evapotranspiration (ET), water table depth, and river discharge, assuming unchanged vegetation.

Publication Date: 
07/08/2014
Yadu N Pokhrel, Ying Fan, Gonzalo Miguez-Macho
Geophysical Research Letters
1-12
Tags:
Amazon, Hydrology, Tropical Forests, Climate Change, Groundwater, Global Warming, Climate Impacts