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the proposal for joint accession by the U.S. and China in the interest of China?, and 2) Even if participating a global … cap-and-trade regime is so beneficial to China as many economic studies suggest, why has China consistently refused in … perspectives: a) how does China value importance of maintaining unity of the Group of 77?; b) what lessons has China learned from …
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China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U ….S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community … starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under the Bali Roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on which …
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This paper discusses to what extent the recent trends in energy consumption and production are compatible with the requirements of sustainable development. For this purpose, starting from a simple identity applied to the energy sector, we use the decomposition analysis to derive a few analytical...
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Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China’s own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its carbon … open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other side, the inclusion of … imported products. Being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs to, at a right time, indicate a …
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This study explores the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, economic growth, renewable energy consumption, the number of tourist arrivals and trade in Central and South America spanning the period 1995-2010. We apply panel cointegration techniques and panel Granger causality...
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This paper develops an endogenous growth model featuring environmental externalities, abatement R&D, and market imperfections. We compare the economic performances under three distinct regimes that encompass public abatement, private abatement without tax recycling, and private abatement with...
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The CDM seems to play a significant role in international GHG reduction activities. Yet, a few emerging countries have hosted majority of CDM projects whereas most LDCs have not hosted CDM projects at all. Given the current distributional imbalance, this study aims to identify determinants of...
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This paper tests for a sulfur Kuznets curve by examining the sulfur emissions per capita-GDP per capita relationship individually, for 25 OECD countries over 1950-2005 using a reduced-form, linear model that allows for multiple endogenously determined breaks. This approach addresses several...
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The effects of an agreement such as the Kyoto Protocol, which implicitly imposes a ceiling on the stock of pollution, have recently been studied in Hotelling models. We add pollution and a ceiling to the endogenous growth model of \cite{tsur2005scarcity} to study the effects of the ceiling on...
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Recent development trends of environmental taxation in Ukraine in context of the 2011 Tax Reform are analysed. Institutional, fiscal and security challenges for green taxes evolution during economic downturn and recession are summarized. Further modernization outlook for environment-oriented...
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