The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological … power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for economic growth, mainly coming from developing and emerging … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …

How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This … short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics …. This note on "environmental economics" will be published in the forthcoming "Earth 2020: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly …

economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to … economy in economists’ language about market failures, distributional equity, and policies that can raise economic welfare by …

unique recycling policy for each material, in each locality, then a surgical recycling strategy may better serve society … recycling policy would extend this practice, so that the recycling policy for aluminum cans could differ from that of plastic …

compile new data on global profit ownership. Our findings reveal that trade has greatly reshaped the global incidence of …We develop a method to measure the incidence of monopolistic markup distortions in the global economy. Using semi …-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup …

We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The …-style approach to trade and the environment, its full potential has not yet been exploited. We discuss existing empirical and …

environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even …&D intensity of importer countries. Besides having important implications for the effectiveness and design of climate policy, these … results underscore the role of dependence on oil revenues of the oil exporters and economic/political diversification …

mitigation policy consists of spending a constant fraction of output on emissions abatement. This fraction is an increasing … robustness of our results. In a quantitative assessment of our model we show that the optimal abatement expenditure at the global …

The coronavirus pandemic has led many countries to initiate unprecedented economic recovery packages. Policymakers … both the long-run climate impacts from coronavirus-related economic recovery policies, and the impacts of long-run climate … policies on economic recovery and public health post-recession. We base our analysis on data on emissions, employment and …