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Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture

Stavins, Robert N.; Jaffe, Judson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Cap-and-trade systems have emerged as the preferred national and regional instrument for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism — an international emission-reduction-credit system — has developed a substantial...

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Going Forward by Looking Backwards on the Environmental Kuznets Curve: an Analysis of CFCs, CO2 and the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols

Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The success of the Montreal Protocol in comparison to the stagnation seen in negotiations surrounding the Kyoto Protocol highlights the importance of a supportive industry group, pre-existing legislation and commitment by a lead nation, affordable and available substitutes, as well as acceptance...

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors

Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

This paper represents an empirical investigation of the “weak” and “strong” Porter Hypothesis (PH) focusing on the manufacturing sectors of European countries between 1997 and 2009. By and large, the literature has analyzed the impact of environmental regulation on innovation and on...

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The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled after 100 Years

Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …

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Measuring the Economic Value of Two Habitat Defragmentation Policy Scenarios for the Veluwe, The Netherlands

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Heide, C. Martijn van der; Bergh, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper offers an economic value assessment of a nature protection programme in the Veluwe. This programme involves two defragmentation scenarios: the first scenario connects the central part of the Veluwe with the IJssel river forelands in a north-eastern direction, while the second scenario...

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Is Inequality Harmful for the Environment in a Growing Economy?

Kempf, Hubert; Rossignol, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of the environment. Public expenditures may either be...

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Examining the Factors Influencing Environmental Innovations

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a whole, to the extent that it helps to increase the material/energy efficiency of production processes and to reduce emission/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental...

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Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...

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“The Voracity Effect” and Climate Change: The Impact of Clean Technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...

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Environmental Resources Depletion and Interplay Between Negative and Positive Externalities in a Growth Model

Antoci, Angelo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

We analyse growth dynamics in an economy where the well-being of economic agents depends on three goods: leisure, a free access environmental good and a private good which can be produced by each agent through his own labour input. The private good can be consumed as a substitute for the...

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