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Filippo Pavanello

@fpavanello.bsky.social

AP @ ifo Institute and @lmu.de| PhD Econ @unibo.it | Affiliate CMCC, EIEE, and @cesifo.org. Studying adaptation to climate change. Website: https://fpavanello.github.io/

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AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Cool Cities: The Value of Urban Trees" by Lu Han, Stephan Heblich, Christopher Timmins, and Yanos Zylberberg.

Cool Cities: The Value of Urban Trees

(Forthcoming Article) - As urban populations grow, more people face extreme heat, increasing demand for natural cooling. Urban trees offer various amenities, including cooling benefits, yet their economic value is hard to quantify. This paper estimates the implicit value of urban trees by exploiting the Emerald Ash Borer infestation caused by an invasive beetle that kills ash trees in Toronto as an exogenous shock. We find that a onepercentage- point increase in a postcode’s tree cover raises property prices by 1.13% and reduces exposure to extreme heat, pollution, and energy consumption. These findings underscore trees as a cost-effective, practical strategy for mitigating urban warming.

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 6mo ago

✍️ New article: Billions of people have access to far less electricity per day than is required to run an air conditioner for just one hour. For five months of the year, temperatures in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, climb above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).

Energy poverty: How long could the average person run an air conditioner every day? Horizontal bar chart showing how many minutes a typical 1000W single-room air conditioner could be powered by the average per capita residential electricity use in various countries. Values by country: India 44 minutes; Sri Lanka 39 minutes; Pakistan 37 minutes; Zimbabwe 25 minutes; Nigeria 13 minutes; Kenya 10 minutes; Haiti 8 minutes; South Sudan 4 minutes; Rwanda 3 minutes; Chad 1 minute. Key insight: large disparities in residential electricity access, with even the highest-listed country able to run a 1000W air conditioner less than one hour per day. Footer data source text: Data source: Calculated based on International Energy Agency and UN World Population Prospects. Chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Developing countries face the joint challenges of reducing poverty and adapting to a changing climate, while in some cases also needing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Read our VoxDevLit on Climate Adaptation to learn more: https://ow.ly/4ejQ50Xu01g

Introduction - Climate Adaptation

Developing countries face the joint challenges of reducing poverty and adapting to a changing climate, while in some cases also needing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. From 1990 to 2015, the global extreme-poverty rate (as measured by the $2.14 per day benchmark) fell steadily, but in recent years this progress has slowed, and in some instances reversed (World Bank 2020). Currently, 60% of the world’s population lives in a place where a hotter year causes lower GDP growth, and by 2100, 75% will (Acevedo et al. 2017). Therefore, even if the ambitious global target of limiting...

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NBER@nber.org · 10mo ago

Taking the literature as a whole, the global consequences of unmitigated climate change are likely to be substantial, unequal, harmful in aggregate, and potentially destabilizing, from Solomon Hsiang www.nber.org/papers/w34357

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NBER@nber.org · 11mo ago

Deviations from moderate temperatures kill hundreds of thousands each year in the US and EU, with limited evidence on which interventions work to reduce these burdens, from Burke, Wilson, Avirmed, Wallstein, Martins, Behrer, Callahan, Childs, Choi, French, Gould... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34313

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VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🆕 Why did air conditioning catch on so quickly in Mexico? Today on VoxDev, Lucas Davis (Haas) & Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley School of Public Health) discuss how falling electricity prices and rising energy efficiency led to increased air conditioning adoption in Mexico: https://ow.ly/elql50X5qLZ

Why did air conditioning catch on so quickly in Mexico?

Air conditioning adoption in Mexico has grown much faster than earlier forecasts, with nearly one million more units installed than predicted, largely due to falling electricity prices and rising energy efficiency that lowered the cost of cooling.

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Nick Hagerty@hagertynw.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships 🧵

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Marshall Burke@marshallburke.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.

Shannon Osaka@shannonosaka.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse. new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...