Although the United Nations called for a 'Global Green New Deal' and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) includes green incentives, there is far from a consensus on whether the Green New Deal will be a key solution to the economic crisis. To inform the debate, we investigate the...

This study examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can substantiate the claim that annual emission constraints have a modest effect on long run economic growth rates. The paper studies specifically the contribution of carbon dioxide emissions on growth in Egyptian economy during the...

Recent interpretations of Brazilian business performance suggest that it is driven by increased aggregate consumption in the context of economic global integration. This performance may have been due to conditions of low inflation, higher economic growth, well-focused social programmes and a...

Green economics: An introduction and research agenda, examines the historical evolution of green economics, a discourse which is marked by antipathy to the foundational assumptions of conventional market based economics. Green opposition to growth and the market is identified along with values...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis describes an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental quality indicators and per capita income. In comparison to previous studies on the EKC, this paper tests for the potential advantage of latecomer economies. It is presumed that...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) first emerged in the 1990s as a means of describing the changing relationship between growth and environmental degradation. The EKC is based on the view that, as a nation's per capita real GDP rises over time, environmental quality initially deteriorates but...

The paper explores the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the trade-led growth hypothesis in three countries, namely Australia, Canada and Israel for the period 1965-2009. The empirical investigation is based on panel co-integration and causality tests. The results provide clear support...

This paper introduces this special issue on the 'Economics of climate change' and describes contemporary policy attitudes in the economics of climate change, it explores features and differences in some examples from a variety of economic policy approaches in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate...

When green national accounts are calculated, environmental damage will have a negative impact on economic growth figures and therefore countries will be more likely to take potential damage into account when planning their growth path. Using China as an example, the following illustration will...

Climate change adaptation and mitigation need to cut across all poverty reduction efforts, including any post-2015 architecture. However, low carbon development (LCD) debates to date have been mainly about high and middle-income countries. There are good reasons why even the poorest countries...