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Environmental regulation of a global pollution externality in a bilateral trade framework : the case of global warming, China and the US
Gwatipedza, Johnson; Barbier, Edward - 2013
) and the South (China) in the presence of a global pollution externality. Each country's share of global pollution depends … on its share of world capital. We show that, if the disutility of pollution in the United States is high, there will be … pressure on the US to raise environmental regulations on industry. Capital will move to China. Because the increased pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221728
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Growth and inequality convergence : the role of environmentally related impacts on human capital
Mensah, Angela Cindy Emefa; Barbier, Edward - 2022
We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial incidence of environmentally related impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380662
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The Sustainable Development Goals and the systems approach to sustainability
Barbier, Edward; Burgess, Joanne C. - 2017
The authors explore the link between the systems approach to sustainability and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were formally adopted by the UN in 2015. The systems approach depicts sustainable development as the intersection of the goals attributed to three interlinked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664839
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Natural capital, ecological scarcity and rural poverty
Barbier, Edward - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632278
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Global governance : the G20 and a global green new deal
Barbier, Edward - 2009
In response to the world economic crisis, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal (GGND) requires implementation and coordination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873253
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Greening the G7 economies through a more inclusive Climate Club
Barbier, Edward - 2023
phasing in taxes or tradable permits to cover the costs of local air pollution, global warming, and other damages. Second, any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251659