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We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one … economic and technological developments. We include the possibility of emissions reduction from bio energy (BE), carbon capture …
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Analyzing the risks of anthropogenic climate change requires sound probabilistic projections of CO2 emissions. Previous … aggregated observations of population size, economic output, and CO2 emissions over the last three centuries into a simple … economic model. We use this model to derive probabilistic projections of business-as-usual CO2 emissions to the year 2150. We …
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nations to put in place policies that bring about meaningful reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases. Due to the … ubiquity and diversity of emissions of greenhouse gases in most economies, as well as the variation in abatement costs among …
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Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity … shadow-price on carbon dioxide emissions. We examine alternative designs of three such instruments – carbon taxes, cap …
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(CGE) model to estimate the impacts of the BTAs implemented by US and EU on China’s sectoral carbon emissions. The results …, which leads to energy substitution effect and somewhat stimulates carbon emissions. Depending on the relative strength of … the output-demand effect and energy substitution effect, sectoral carbon emissions and energy demands will vary across …
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Paragraph 31(iii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration mandates to the liberalization of environmental goods and services. This mandate offers a good opportunity to put climate-friendly goods and services on a fast track to liberalization. Agreement on this paragraph should represent one...
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the century. There are risks of even greater warming given that underlying uncertainties in emissions projections and … temperature targets identified in international negotiations would require significant reductions in GHG emissions below “business …-as-usual” levels, and indeed from present emissions levels. Nearly universal participation of countries is required, and the needed …
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We study residential demand for electricity and gas, working with nationwide household-level data that cover recent years, namely 1997-2007. Our dataset is a mixed panel/multi-year cross-sections of dwellings/households in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States as of 2008. To our...
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China’s emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the twenty-first century, and is thus perceived by the...
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has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution and CO2 emissions. While estimates of the embedded CO2 emissions … emissions embedded in trade. This portion of CO2 emissions had helped to turn China into the world’s largest carbon emitter, and … portion of emissions and bearing the carbon cost of exports. China certainly wants importers to cover some, if not all, of …
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