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Endogenous growth, green innovation and GDP deceleration in a world with polluting production inputs : conference paper

Burghaus, Kerstin; Funk, Peter - 2013 - This version: August 22nd, 2013, work in progress

We study economic growth and pollution control in a model with endogenous rate and direction of technical change …. Economic growth (growth of real GDP) results from growth in the quantity and productivity of polluting intermediates. Pollution … can be controlled by reducing the pollution intensity of a given quantity through costly research (green innovation) and …

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Decomposing Inequality in CO 2 emissions : the role of primary energy carriers and economic sectors ; conference paper

Grunewald, Nicole; Jakob, Michael; Mouratiadou, Ioanna - 2013

Emission inequality across countries and the contribution of the energy mix and the sectoral composition of a country s energy use are of central importance to the climate debate. We analyze the evolution of inequality in global CO2 per capita emissions using both historical data on...

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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment : conference paper

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete, March 1, 2013

We study environmental pollution in an economic geography framework with two cities, where pollution arises from … energy use. We find that city size has an ambiguous effect on pollution levels. We also analyse how pollution changes with …

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Counting carbon in global trade : why imported emissions challenge the climate regime and what might be done about it : an essay series

Krishnan, Aarti (ed.); Maxwell, Simon (ed.) - Workshop on "Certification as a Route to Reducing the …; … - 2020

The foundations of the climate regime are under threat, with significant implications for developing countries. This set of essays identifies two main threats to the climate regime. The first is the growing importance of emissions traded across national borders, currently accounting for up to...

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Will skyscrapers save the planet? : conference paper

Borck, Rainald - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete

This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...

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The growth drag of pollution : conference paper

Schäfer, Andreas - 2014 - This version: February 2014

emergence of differential fertility, but also for agents' exposure to environmental pollution because wealthier households live … effect of inequality and pollution on economic growth is amplified, if the population group that is least affected decides …

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Sustaining a federation of Future Internet experimental facilities

Van Ooteghem, Jan; Taylor, Steve; Grace, Paul; Lobillo, … - 2014

The growing complexity of the Future Internet landscape has driven the need for large-scale federations of experimental testbeds that support the next generation of research and experimentation. However, such facilities are typically difficult to sustain in the long term, particularly in the...

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The impact of market innovations on the evolution of norms : the sustainability case ; conference paper

Müller, Stephan; Wangenheim, Georg von - 2014

That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...

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Innovation for development : the key to a transformative recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean : third meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Co...

Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and …; … - 2022

Science, innovation, knowledge and digital technologies have played a fundamental role in the growth potential, social inclusion and environmental sustainability of countries in recent decades, and have become even more important in the context of the crisis caused by the coronavirus disease...

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A decade of action for a change of era : fifth report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribb...

Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the …; … - 2022

For the fifth time, the countries of the region are convening in the framework of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. On each occasion, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has presented a report on regional...

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