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Achieving the “Low Carbon, Green Growth” Vision in Korea
Jones, Randall S.; Yoo, Byungseo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276862
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Korea's Green Growth Strategy: Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines
Jones, Randall S.; Yoo, Byungseo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005, the highest growth rate in the OECD area. Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492404
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Achieving the “low carbon, green growth” vision in Korea
Jones, Randall Sidney; Yoo, Byungseo - 2012
Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691020
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Korea's Green Growth Strategy : Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines
Jones, Randall - 2011
Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005, the highest growth rate in the OECD area. Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444179
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From “Green Growth” to sound policies: An overview
Schmalensee, Richard - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) S1, pp. 2-2
“Green growth” is an attractive slogan with a variety of possible meanings. This essay critically examines several potential meanings of this slogan and provides a brief overview of some of the main implications of the other papers in this special issue. Taken together, these papers argue...
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Greener Growth in the Belgian Federation
Koźluk, Tomasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
The degradation of the environment due to climate change and pollution can harm living standards and damage growth prospects. In Belgium, one of the most densely populated OECD countries, pressure on the environment is particularly strong, and is reinforced by the high energy intensity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321199
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The Perverse Effects of Biofuel Public-Sector Policies
Gorter, Harry de; Drabik, Dusan; Just, David R. - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 463-483
mandates, subsidies, import barriers, binary sustainability standards, and indirect land use measures, we identify many … hence the food-fuel trade-off, the contradictory effects of combining mandates with different subsidies, the various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823014
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Climate Policy Options and the World Trade Organization
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009), pp. 1-15
Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors argue that border measures—both import restrictive measures and … export subsidies—contemplated in US climate bills and the climate policies of other countries stand a fair chance of being … challenged in the WTO. Given the prospect of foreseeable conflicts with WTO rules, the authors suggest that key WTO members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082964
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Public Interventions and Private Climate Finance Flows: Empirical Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing
Haščič, Ivan; Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel; Jachnik, … - 2015
This study uses a unique dataset of investment flows to analyse the role of two categories of public interventions (finance and policies) in mobilising flows of private climate finance worldwide and in the more specific context of flows to and in developing countries. The objectives are...
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State-owned enterprises and the low-carbon transition
Prag, Andrew; Röttgers, Dirk; Scherrer, Ivo - 2018
This paper explores the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the low-carbon transition in OECD and G20 countries. It tracks GHG emissions and energy investments by SOEs and analyses the impact of SOEs on investments in renewable electricity. A descriptive analysis of SOEs’ role in the...
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