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Effects of Ownership and Financial Status on Corporate Environmental Performance
Earnhart, Dietrich; Lizal, Lubomir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership effects and this performance link using an unbalanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123506
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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements. In the situation under study, imports may cause environmental damage, in which case less favorable treatment of imported products may be globally desirable from an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025513
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Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade and CO2 emissions
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322978
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What is the Top Priority on Climate Change?
Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
What should be the West's top priority for climate-change policy? This article is a revised and updated version of my talk to the Potsdam Global Sustainability Symposium (which drafted the Potsdam Declaration presented to the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123837
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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?
de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Combining unique data bases on emissions with sectoral output and employment data, we study the sources of the fall in world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504371
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Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
on the extent of pollution haven effects suggests that these should be small under climate mitigation policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677241
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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation: An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy
Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The latest round of international negotiations in Copenhagen led to a set of commitments on emission reduction which are unlikely to stabilise global warming below or around 2°C. As a consequence, in the absence of additional ambitious policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address...
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion … identified by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083788
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Trade in a 'Green Growth' Development Strategy: Issues and Challenges
de Melo, Jaime - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
little evidence that differences in environmental policies across countries has led to significant ‘pollution havens’. Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083801
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Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?
de Melo, Jaime; Vijil, Mariana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels...
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