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Social Responsibility as a Driver for Local Sustainable Development
Costantino, Elena; Marchello, Maria Paola; Mezzano, Cecilia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
The increased interconnection among local and global players induced by globalization, as well as the need for a complete application of the “subsidiarity principle”, calls for a re-thinking of the “corporate social responsibility” concept. This new concept broadens the perspective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642137
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Does a Renewable Fuel Standard for Biofuels Reduce Climate Costs?
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Recent literature on biofuels has questioned whether biofuels policies are likely to reduce the negative effects of climate change. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable fuel standard in a dynamic model taking into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833928
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Food versus Fuel: Causality and Predictability in Distribution
Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between biofuels and commodity food prices in the U.S. from a new perspective. While a large body of literature has tried to explain the linkages between sample means and volatilities associated with ethanol and agricultural price returns, little is known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833952
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Advanced Biofuels: Future Perspectives from an Expert Elicitation Survey
Fiorese, Giulia; Catenacci, Michela; Verdolini, Elena; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
This paper illustrates the main results of an expert elicitation survey on advanced (second and third generation) biofuel technologies. The survey focuses on eliciting probabilistic information on the future costs of advanced biofuels and on the potential role of RD&D (Research, Development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584493
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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime
Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Using an overlapping generation model à la Blanchard (1985) with human capital accumulation, this article demonstrates that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385426
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732280
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Improving Education as Key to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Developing Countries
Lutz, Wolfgang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
international development, the combination of education and health stands out as a root cause on which other dimensions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465526
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Health-enhancing Activities and the Environment: How Competition for Resources Makes the Environmental Policy Beneficial
Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
pollution on health and the private decision of each working-age agent to improve her health are taken into account. Especially …, a tighter environmental tax is more likely to promote (rather than to harm) output-level and –growth when health is very … sensitive to pollution, the weight of health in preferences is high, the polluting capacity of the production technology is high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502092
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Accounting for Different Uncertainties: Implications for Climate Investments?
Hector, Svenja - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a general framework that can cope with various forms of uncertainty, it is shown that the response of the consumption discount rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904906
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Climate Change and Adaptation: The Case of Nigerian Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904911