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floods, droughts, changing ecological status and the WFD, and water in agriculture. Chapter VI provides a series of case …, and the Ebro and Po River Basins. Further chapters address the issues of water borne and vector-borne disease likely …
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gradual but steady approximation progress to the EU environmental legislation. Previous research established an important role … of the participation of economic and societal stakeholders in the decision-making and implementation process based on EU … stakeholders. Focusing on the water and waste management sectors, the article analyzes the stages that brought Hungary to the …
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The European Union Emissions Trading System has raised concerns about possible detrimental effects on firms production through an increase in polluting costs, unless firms change inputs or increase the efficiency in the way they produce. We provide evidence of the causal impact of this policy on...
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The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has aimed to encourage the development of low-carbon technologies … their patenting history and their regulatory status under EU ETS, we investigate the hypothesis that the EU ETS has … activities at the EPO since 2005, especially among EU ETS regulated companies during the Scheme's second phase. Naive estimates …
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The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has aimed to encourage the development of low-carbon technologies … their patenting history and their regulatory status under EU ETS, we investigate the hypothesis that the EU ETS has … activities at the EPO since 2005, especially among EU ETS regulated companies during the Scheme’s second phase. Naive estimates …
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Emissions trading is arguably the lynchpin of EU (European Union) climate policy. In January 2005 the EU adopted a cap … amongst installations in the various Member States. Although the system has encountered some problems, the EU has not lost … faith in it. In fact, even more now depends on its performance – not least the EU’s credibility in international climate …
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policy, the EU burden sharing agreement and the UK Climate Change Agreements feature this incentive scheme. There is only a …
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official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that absolute delinking for waste generation is far from being achieved in … the EU despite fairly stringent and longstanding policy commitment that goes back to the mid 1990s, but which however is … seem to impact instead on landfill diversion. Nevertheless, country heterogeneity matters: SURE based analyses show that EU …
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Minimum harmonization in European environmental law essentially means that the Member States have the power to lay down more stringent standards in this area of regulation than those laid down by European legislation. However, there are indications which seem to suggest that Member States make...
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The importance of the environment in the European Union (EU) has been growing rapidly. The EU, as one of the largest … and life of its citizens. In that direction the EU has been strengthening the activities in the environmental area. Today …, contemporary EU is not only committed to the protection of the environment, but also along with the protection, tries to improve …
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