Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two obje

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Global temperatures have increased at an unprecedented pace in the past 40 years. This paper finds that increases in temperature have uneven macroeconomic effec

This work combines research and empirical evidence on the economic costs of disasters with theoretical approaches. It provides new insights on how to assess and

Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge further progress