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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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International Conference on Agricultural GHG Emissions and Food Security - Connecting research to policy and practice : September 10-13, 2018 : Berlin, Germany : volume of abstract...

Heidecke, Claudia (ed.); Montgomery, Hayden (ed.); … - International Conference on Agricultural GHG Emissions … - 2018

This Volume of Abstract includes all contributions for presentations and posters that were selected during a review process for the "International Conference on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Food Security"􀇇􀍛. The conference took place from 10–13 September 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

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Low-carbon development through international specialization : conference paper

Schwerhoff, Gregor; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2013

A major concern in climate negotiations is that decarbonization may significantly hurt the development process. This paper shows that international specialization can contribute to making environmental and economic objectives compatible. When carbon efficiency differs between two trading...

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