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more effective technology adoption incentives than conventional regulatory standards. We explore this issue for an … during the lead phasedown provided incentives for more efficient technology adoption decisions. Where environmentally … for technology diffusion. …
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This is the first academic paper that reviews the economic, policy, and technology history of shale gas development in …. This paper is also a case study of the incentive, process, and impact of technology innovations and the role of government … in promoting technology innovations in the energy industry. Our review finds that government policy, private …
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Several recent studies have used simulation models to quantify the potential effects of recent environmental regulations on power plants, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), one of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s most expensive regulations. These studies have...
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We analyze whether technology inducement prizes could be a useful complement to standard research grants and contracts … effectiveness of a climate technology prize. …
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the variety of areas where productive forests can be grown, as well as overall forest productivity. We find that there is …
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policies that foster emissions reduction as well as the development and adoption of environmentally beneficial technology. Both … and information problems can further weaken innovation incentives. While environmental technology policy is fraught with …
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Food can be produced under a number of technological conditions. Some observers hold that modern crop production technologies, typified by those embodied in the Green Revolution, are so intensive in the use of external inputs that they damage the environment and so are not sustainable. Those...
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Since the energy crisis in the 1970s and later the growing concern for climate change in the 1990s, policymakers at all levels of government and around the world have been enthusiastically supporting a wide range of incentive mechanisms for electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E)....
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We assess different policies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions and promoting the innovation and diffusion of renewable energy. We evaluate the relative performance of policies according to incentives provided for emissions reduction, efficiency, and other outcomes. We also assess how the...
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The approach used to model technological change in a climate policy model is a critical determinant of its results. We provide an overview of the different approaches used in the literature, with an emphasis on recent developments regarding endogenous technological change, research and...
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