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...

This article argues that the recent financial crisis was caused largely by the long-term problem of the current world economy lacking a sustainable path of development. Limits to growth – expressed principally through rises in the price of oil and other commodities – created a crisis for the...

China's breakneck economic growth in recent decades was accompanied by visible environmental pollution and degradation. In the same period, tax revenues also increased sharply. Replacing existing taxes with the environment taxes called for by many environmental economists seems a promising...

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...