Governance, Vulnerability to Climate Change, and Green Growth: International Evidence
Le, Thai-Ha; Chang, Youngho; Park, Donghyun | November 2016
Abstract
We examine the role of governance and vulnerability to climate change in green growth using a global panel data set of 122 countries in 2000‒2012. We find that, as expected, governance has a positive effect on environmental performance and vulnerability to climate change has a negative effect. This suggests that promoting good governance and reducing climate change vulnerability can contribute to a cleaner environment. We find qualitatively similar results for the subsample of high-income countries, but governance does not have a significant effect for the subsamples of upper-middle-income, lower-middle-income, and low-income countries. One possible interpretation is that high-income countries have environmental policies which are strong enough to protect the environment, whereas other countries have relatively weak environmental policies which need to be strengthened.
Citation
Le, Thai-Ha; Chang, Youngho; Park, Donghyun. 2016. Governance, Vulnerability to Climate Change, and Green Growth: International Evidence. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8830. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
2313-6537 (Print)
2313-6545 (e-ISSN)
Keywords
Climate
Climate impacts assessment
Governance
Governance Approach
Public Administration
Climatology
Climatic influence
Electronic Government
Communication in climatology
Climate change mitigation
Government
Crisis management in government
Transparency in government
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