There is an urgent need to mitigate global warming for all countries around the world. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has announced a series of energy and climate policy targets in contributing its efforts towards meeting the ambitious goals in the Paris Agreement and the newly pledged...

Multilateral cooperation initiatives (or “climate clubs”) can generate some of the additional action that is needed to achieve the goals agreed in the Paris Agreement. An analysis of the state of collaboration in the four policy areas energy transition, synthetic fuels, food systems and...

The Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act (BECA) was enacted in 1995 containing certain recognized and valued principles of environmental law. Despite the incorporation of such principles, the provisions themselves contained in this Act are in contradiction. This writing aims to highlight...

Guaranteeing a high-level living environment is one of the most important preconditions to the balanced and sustainable economic and social development of the European Union. Serious environmental problems can be seen in European cities, which are the places where most of the population live and...

In this article we investigate the determinants of the innovation-friendly environment in Europe inthe period 2000-2019. We use data from the European Innovation Scoreboard of the EuropeanCommission for 36 countries. Data are analyzed using dynamic panel data at 1 stage, panel data with fixed...

A broad consensus exists that carbon pricing is key for cost-effective emission reductions and that it must play a major role in driving the transition to a climate-neutral economy. However, despite significant progress in wider climate policy uptake in recent years, the vast majority of...

Carbon pricing has now been implemented as a key policy instrument for climate change mitigation in many countries globally. However, existing systems differ significantly in design with regard to stringency, coverage and the use of the revenues collected through the system. In this literature...