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The 'Doomsday' Effect in Climate Policies : Why is the Present Decade so Crucial to Tackling the Climate Challenge?
Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste - 2012
Despite growing scientific evidence that passing a 2°C temperature increase may trigger tipping points in climate dynamics, most Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) based on Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) with smooth quadratic damage functions are unable to account for the possibility of strong...
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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?
Bréchet, Thierry - 2013
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
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Greening Up or Not? The Determinants Political Parties’ Environmental Concern : An Empirical Analysis Based on European Data (1970-2008)
Michallet, Benjamin - 2015
Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers examine the determinants of citizens' pro-environmental behaviour, we know little about the extent to which political parties adjust their platform towards environmentalism. We investigate this...
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors
Rubashkina, Yana - 2014
This paper represents an empirical investigation of the “weak” and “strong” Porter Hypothesis (PH) focusing on the manufacturing sectors of European countries between 1997 and 2009. By and large, the literature has analyzed the impact of environmental regulation on innovation and on...
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European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services : An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2015
This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors’ knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...
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Environmental Policy and Investment Location : The Risk of Carbon Leakage in the EU ETS
D’Arcangelo, Filippo M.; Galeotti, Marzio - 2022
This paper empirically investigates the effect of the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on cross … in areas outside the EU ETS. To study this problem, we employ a model of the firm’s investment decision in conjunction … sensitivity to carbon pricing from observed pollution data. This allows to identify the effect of the EU ETS on international …
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Group Rewards and Individual Sanctions in Environmental Policy
Dijkstra, Bouwe; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2007
policy, the EU burden sharing agreement and the UK Climate Change Agreements feature this incentive scheme. There is only a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051019
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Sustainable Development Policies in Europe
Caratti, Pietro; Locascio, Gabriella - 2007
commitment in reaching a sustainable regulation by issuing some documents and declarations. The paper frames the EU action into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053737
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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change : Evidence from the European Carbon Market
Calel, Raphael; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2014
The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has aimed to encourage the development of low-carbon technologies … their patenting history and their regulatory status under EU ETS, we investigate the hypothesis that the EU ETS has … activities at the EPO since 2005, especially among EU ETS regulated companies during the Scheme's second phase. Naive estimates …
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The Political Consequences of Green Policies : Evidence from Italy
Colantone, Italo; Di Lonardo, Livio; Margalit, Yotam; … - 2022
For many governments, enacting green policies is a priority, but such policies often impose on citizens substantial and uneven costs. How does the introduction of green policies a˙ect voting? We study this question in the context of a major ban on polluting cars introduced in Milan, which was...
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