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This paper studies the link between the design of international environmental agreements and the incentives for the … types of agreement : an agreement on a uniform standard with transfers and an agreement on differentiated standards without … given the expected level of abatement standards, resulting from future bilateral negotiations. Our findings indicate that …
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markets for ecosystem services and propose preliminary conceptual foundations of new business standards needed to reverse …Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies …
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changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information … a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to …
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This paper propose an assessment for European Commission 'Package of Implementation measures for the EU's objectives on climate change and renewable energy for 2020', that was agreed the 23 January 2008. The policy assessment uses macroeconomic modeling tools: NEMESIS economic macro-econometric...
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According to the seminal Cost Recovery Theorem the revenues from congestion tolls pay for the capacity costs of an optimal-sized facility if capacity is perfectly divisible, and if user costs and capacity costs have constant scale economies. This paper extends the Theorem to long-run uncertainty...
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In 2007 Poland and Ukraine were awarded by UEFA to co-host the 2012 European Football Championships. This first "mega-event" to take place in the transition countries is commonly intended to yield large and lasting economic bebefits to the host cities. This point of view is rarely shared by...
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The implementation of climate policies is often hindered by a lack of acceptability as well as the lack of long-term vision of stakeholders. Mitigation scenarios exercises allow the debate; however the scenario design process lacks transparency and stakeholders' (and citizens') involvement, which...
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could be better off by signing an agreement on differentiated standards in order to exploit increasing returns to scale in …
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uniform versus differentiated abatement standards when there are imperfect transferts between countries. To achieve this goal … of similarity of countries to defend the use of uniform standards is not appropriate, when there exists high level of … total welfare criteria, we notice first that differentiated standards with transfers are generally better than uniform …
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Standards and norms are central objects for institutional studies. However, their role in innovation and the creation …-districts, both in France and Denmark. Our analysis reveals different tensions, tradeoffs and priorities, among standards, between …
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