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This article proposes a users’ typology grounded in the users’ needs and motivation. We apply cluster analysis, a multivariate technique seldom applied in IS research, to the data obtained from a purposely diversified population of 247 respondents. The three-stage research design is...
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emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, i.e. operational and technological risk, or risks associated with the environmental … monitoring and the regulatory mechanism itself. The success of projects depends importantly on the risk sharing arrangements … separation of the operation of the landfill and the CDM project development appear to be manageable by risk sharing arrangements. …
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The electricity sector is the single most important EU ETS sector and will have determinant role in EU ETS emissions and emissions reductions. As such, understanding the reaction of the sector to EUA or carbon permit prices, both in the short-term (production) and in the long-term (investment)...
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the face of climactic risk. The report’s principle recommendation is the implementation of an international emission …
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The paper will discuss the possibilities of the development of nuclear energy in the world in the midterm and long term. It will correlate the prospects with the emissions of CO2 and the effects on climate change. In particular it will discuss the problems nuclear energy face to make a large...
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According to the Stern Report on climate change, the course of the next fifty years is set: present policies will impact only in the very long term, fifty to two hundred years from now. There is no market for interest rates, so far into the future, and economists must find other ways to set...
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In the wake of the Copenhagen Conference and the outstanding issue of shaping climate change mitigation for the period beyond that covered by the Kyoto protocol, this paper puts into context the various economic instruments available fot tackling climate change, and highlights the emergence, as...
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The effectiveness of unilateral action to curb carbon emissions has been dismissed because of possible “carbon leakages”, this referring to the rise of emissions in non-participating countries. This paper offers a general equilibrium (GE) exploration of the key mechanisms and factors...
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The aim of this article is to investigate whether anticipated technological progress can be expected to be strong enough to offset carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions resulting from the rapid growth of air transport. Aviation CO2 emissions projections are provided at the worldwide level and for eight...
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