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The European Emission Trading Scheme and Renewable Energy Policies: Credible Targets for Incredible Results?
Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European Trading System of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828388
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Interactions between Climate and Trade Policies: A Survey
Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
consider the major issues in multilateral economic agreements in trade and finance that affect environmental sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423127
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Conserving Crop Genetic Resources on Smallholder Farms in Hungary: Institutional Analysis
Bela, Györgyi; Pataki, György; Smale, Melinda; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
Hungary is home to a great diversity of plant and animal species, whose preservation is of global value. This paper focuses on the institutional aspects of the research project on on-farm conservation of crop genetic resources in three Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Hungary (Dévaványa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385462
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Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive U.S. Cap-and-Trade System
Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. I describe and analyze an up- stream, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade system which implements a gradual trajectory of emissions reductions (with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965193
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A Meaningful U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Climate Change
Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In this article, I propose and analyze a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically feasible approach for the United States to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965203
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Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector: Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading
Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650283
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Cross-Country Ethical Dilemmas in Business: A Descriptive Framework
Ferro, Nicoletta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385329
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Energy Prices, Subsidies and Resource Tax Reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162044
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Non-pecuniary Value of Employment and Natural Resource Extinction
Farzin, Y. Hossein; Akao, Ken-Ichi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
We assume that people value employment not only to earn income to satisfy their consumption needs but also as a means of community/social involvement that provides socio-psychological (non-pecuniary) benefits. We show that the latter incentive can encourage full employment harvesting resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230906
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Water Infrastructures Facing Sustainable Development Challenges: Integrated Evaluation of Impacts of Dams on Regional Development in Morocco
Minoia, Paola; Brusarosco, Anna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
critical view will be given about the coherence of this strategy with the sustainability principles. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392541