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Koning, Martin; Prud'Homme, Rémy; Kopp, Pierre - HAL - 2010

On the southern part of the Parisian Maréchaux' boulevards, the old bus line Petite Ceinture has been replaced by a modern tramway (T3). Simultaneously, the road-space has been narrowed by about a third. A survey conducted on 1,000 users of the T3 shows that the tramway hardly generated any...

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Traffic and CO2 emissions of urban goods deliveries under contrasted scenarios of retail location and distribution

Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus - HAL - 2010

This communication presents four contrasted and near-caricatured scenarios of retail location and distribution, and compares them on the bases of both road occupancy rates and greenhouse gas emissions. Two main families of scenarios are defined: retailing land-use scenarios, based on the...

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Toward low carbon mobility : Tackling road transport emissions

Russo, Rémi; Boutueil, Virginie - HAL - 2011

The ever-increasing trend to greater mobility has brought about a situation in which considerations of sustainable development might call for restrictions on the continued growth of the global mobility of people and goods. The transport sector is not the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas...

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The potential for CO2 emissions trading in transport: the case of personal vehicles and freight

Raux, Charles - HAL - 2010

Transport currently accounts for around 25-30% of global CO2 emissions and this contribution is growing rapidly. Moreover, road transport holds by far the major part in these emissions. Because of the social and political reluctance to increase fuel taxation, it is of some interest to explore...

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Mitigation of CO2 emissions in 2020 : impacts of the " 20/20/20 " European policy

Stankeviciute, Loreta - HAL - 2007

The study aims to quantify the interactions between the three European objectives in the horizon of 2020: (1) the reduction of 20% of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) (2) the saving of 20% of the energy consumption and (3) the share of 20% of renewables energies in the overall energy consumption....

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Modelling long-run scenarios

Hourcade, Jean-Charles - HAL - 1993

This paper intends to draw overall lessons from a long-term study on CO2 emission in France, a country with a rather low energy/GDP ration and in which transition to non-fossil based production of electricity has been achieved. More generally, it points out the importance of possible bifurcation...

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Energy and climate policies to 2020 : the impacts of the european " 20/20/20 " approach

Stankeviciute, Loreta; Criqui, Patrick - HAL - 2008

Purpose :The study aims to quantify the possible interactions between the three European objectives in the horizon of 2020 : (i) the reduction of 20% of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) (2) the saving of 20% of the European energy consumption and (3) a share of 20% of renewable energies in the...

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A managerial perspective on the Porter hypothesis The case of CO2 emissions

Arjaliès, Diane-Laure; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2010

investors and companies are increasingly aware that climate change and its associated needs for reducing CO2 emissions are likely to impact structurally many areas of the economy. This paper offers a contribution to understand these impacts on companies' strategy, by studying management systems....

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Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: what consequences for population's health?

Drabo, Alassane - HAL - 2011

In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels …. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically …, the role played by each trade component has not yet received enough attention. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by …

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The Rise of China in Sub-Saharan Africa: its Ambiguous Economic Impacts

Sindzingre, Nicole Alice - HAL - 2011

combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities …

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