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Per capita carbon emissions are an important concept in international negotiations of climate policies and also in future projections of aggregate carbon emissions. This paper argues that the convergence studies on per capita carbon emissions in the literature are theoretically biased because...
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This paper discusses the UN and EU regulations on the climate change in regard to CO2 emission in a perspective of the … Agreement and the EU CO2 trading system. The main findings are that the regulation in these legal documents are too soft if …
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and gas-oil prices for automotive fuels in the context of the EU environmental policy. The EU policy has enhanced bio …-diesel production since 2006. Bio-diesel prices are impacted by the EU policy as well as rapeseed and oil prices which have fluctuated a … rapeseed prices according to EU regulations requiring the blending of bio-diesel and gas-oil …
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finds that a one percent increase in the bilateral trade between the U.S. and the typical EU member would reduce annual per …
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This paper explores the efficacy of environmental protection in road transportation that produces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a result of vehicle travel frequencies in a region. Road transportation deduces the highest contributor of carbon emissions coupled with human interventions in the...
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Innovation adoption and diffusion by firms are key pillars for the EU strategy on resource-efficiency and the … development of a circular economy. This paper presents new EU evidence regarding the role of environmental policy and green demand …
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Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing...
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The European Commission has released a new directive concerning sustainability reporting that must be implemented in thousands of companies by 2017. Many companies already report on sustainability. Thus, the question emerges whether companies already fulfil the requirements for reasons of...
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We study the variation of global and unilateral carbon price recommendations and their determinants. To this end, we provide survey evidence on carbon pricing from more than 400 experts across almost 40 countries. We quantify the extent of (dis-)agreement and reveal that a majority of experts...
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Major carbon-pricing systems in Europe and North America involve multiple jurisdictions (countries or states). Individual jurisdictions often pursue additional initiatives—such as unilateral carbon price floors, legislation to phase out coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable...
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