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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China’s efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety...
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Air Pollution Costs in Ukraine
Strukova, Elena; Golub, Alexander; Markandya, Anil - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The paper presents estimation of the health losses from urban air pollution in Ukraine. The methodology developed by US … EPA and adjusted in Russia for Eastern European transition countries was applied for health risk assessment. PM2.5 was … identified as the major source of human health risk, based on experience from the Russian studies. In the absence of reliable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423189
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Adaptive Policy Mechanisms for Transboundary Air Pollution Regulation: Reasons and Recommendations
Kelly, J. Andrew; Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
In the context of transboundary air pollution policy the broad ambition is to achieve reductions in the level of environmental and societal damage associated with certain pollutant concentrations and exposure rates in a cost effective manner. Policy formulation and legislative frameworks in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833926
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Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
Cropper, Maureen L.; Jiang, Yi; Alberini, Anna; Baur, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Ground level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467312
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Assessing the Risk of Oil Spills in the Mediterranean: the Case of the Route from the Black Sea to Italy
Bigano, Andrea; Sheehan, Paul - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Recent major spills on European coasts have highlighted the primary policy relevance for the EU of oil spills. This paper assesses the risks related to carrying oil to the EU along the route from the Russian Black Sea coast to Sicily, Italy (one of the most congested and strategically relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423126
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Breaking the Impasse in International Climate Negotiations: A New Direction for Currently Flawed Negotiations and a Roadmap for China to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
China’s unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both the stringency issue, and given that China’s pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning China’s statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189883
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Assessing China’s Carbon Intensity Pledge for 2020: Stringency and Credibility Issues and their Implications
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Just prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels to help to reach an international climate change agreement at Copenhagen or beyond. This raises the issue of whether such a pledge is ambitious or just represents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828387
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Assessing China’s Energy Conservation and Carbon Intensity: How Will the Future Differ from the Past?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
As an important step towards building a “harmonious society” through “scientific development”, China has incorporated for the first time in its five-year economic plan an energy input indicator as a constraint. While it achieved a quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642154
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Impacts of Border Carbon Adjustments on China’s Sectoral Emissions: Simulations with a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
Bao, Qin; Tang, Ling; Zhang, ZhongXiang; Qiao, Han; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Carbon-based border tax adjustments (BTAs) have recently been proposed by some OECD countries to level the carbon playing field and target major emerging economies. This paper applies a multi-sector dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to estimate the impacts of the BTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421242
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Energy and Environmental Issues and Policy in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732281