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Mer et innovation : Vecteurs d’internationalisation des régions ultrapériphériques de l’UE
OECD - 2023
Ce document présente une vue d'ensemble de l'économie de la mer dans les régions ultrapériphériques (RUP) de l'UE. Il examine les opportunités et les défis auxquels les RUP de l'UE sont confrontées à la lumière des tendances mondiales émergentes, et propose des actions prioritaires...
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Innovative oceans : Drivers of internationalisation for the EU Outermost regions
OECD - 2023
This paper provides an overview of the ocean economy in the EU Outermost Regions (EU ORs). It discusses the opportunities and challenges that the EU ORs are facing in light of emerging global trends, laying out priority actions for making the ocean a factor of competitiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435758
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COVID-19 and food systems : Short- and long-term impacts
OECD - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic placed unprecedented short-term stresses on food supply chains around the world. However, rapid responses by both private-sector actors and policy makers mostly managed to prevent severe disruptions. Yet, even before the outbreak of COVID-19, food systems were faced with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630060
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Optimal forest harvest age considering carbon sequestration in multiple carbon pools: A comparative statics analysis
Asante, Patrick; Armstrong, Glen W. - In: Journal of Forest Economics 18 (2012) 2, pp. 145-156
We present an analytical model for determination of the economically optimal harvest age of a forest stand considering timber value, and the value of carbon fluxes in living biomass, dead organic matter, and wood products pools. Through comparative statics analysis, we find that consideration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010572990
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Climate change policies in Poland : minimising abatement costs
Égert, Balázs - 2012
Poland is on track to meet its international greenhouse-gas emissions commitments. However, it will need to cut … signal. While Poland has made good progress in complying with EU regulations related to the energy sector, the large share of … more investment in low-emission technologies in Poland to achieve a given emissions-reduction target, whereas a deeper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690152
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Institutional barriers to organic farming in Central and Eastern European countries of the Baltic Sea region
Larsson, Markus; Morin, Louise; Hahn, Thomas; Sandahl, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 1 (2013), pp. 1-20
A window of opportunity to promote organic farming is open for the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) that joined the EU in 2004. The development of organic farming has the potential to decrease the amount of nutrient leaching to the Baltic Sea and could help to stop the environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766215
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The economies of the Baltic Sea Region in relation to green economics, with particular focus on Latvia: environmental sustainability and well-being
Dimante, Dzineta; Atstaja, Dzintra - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 3, pp. 292-305
Economic activity has an impact on the environment, but the potential degree of this impact will depend on several factors which are mainly determined by the technology used. This paper analyses the potential environmental impact the economies of the Baltic Sea Region have on their respective...
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Greenhouse Gas Reductions under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?
Holland, Stephen P.; Knittel, Christopher R.; Hughes, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
A low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by limiting a fuel producer's carbon emissions per unit of output. California has launched an LCFS for transportation fuels; others have called for a national LCFS. We show that this policy decreases production of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088801
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Walking in the shoes of others: Experimental testing of dual-interest and empathy in environmental choice
Czap, Natalia V.; Czap, Hans J.; Khachaturyan, Marianna; … - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 5, pp. 642-653
This paper further tests dual interest theory and the metaeconomics approach to environmental choice, recognizing a possible role for empathy–sympathy (the basis for an internalized, shared other-interest) in tempering and conditioning the more fundamental tendency to pursue self-interest. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580760
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Green Growth and Climate Change Policies in New Zealand
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
New Zealand, as a resource-based economy anxious to protect and promote its clean-and-green image, appropriately sees green growth as a natural direction for future development. The country’s environment is of high quality, and depletion of its abundant natural resources is for the most part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321198