This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five … calculated through changes in Hukou status, this study suggests that a 1,000 tons increase in the SO2 emissions reduction quota …

, military training during peacetime has environmental consequences. This research aims to quantify how much pollution is emitted … pollution levels. Leveraging high-frequency data, we employ a machine learning algorithm in conjunction with program evaluation … area. Our findings reveal that these exercises led to a notable increase in air pollution levels, potentially reaching up …

governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … whether increases in pollution could cause additional or more severe infections from COVID-19, which typically manifests as a …

on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data … subsidiary information - from 1997 to 2017, we show that establishments reduce toxic emissions in response to a reduction in …

ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are …. Neutrality hypothesis is identified between CO2 emissions and financial development. Unidirectional causality running from …

While the financial inclusion would induce greater pollutant emissions through its impact of economic activity, the … financial inclusion influences the dynamic of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in a sample of 70 countries during the last decade … reveal that an increased financial access impacts air pollution depending on the level of economic development. While …

unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A key finding is that these forces alone may suffice to generate an urban … emissions in the process of agglomeration and redispersion. Another key result is that agglomeration per se is typically not a … boon for the environment, as total emissions in the total city system are likely to rise. …