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In the fall of 2006 the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles announced the Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP). Its intent was to greatly accelerate emissions reductions from port activities. The CAAP was unprecedented in several ways: it was a voluntary agreement between two competing ports; it was...
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Working from home is generally perceived as an effective means of reducing energy use and associated pollution from commuter transport. In order to consider the merits of mechanisms and policies to support a change in behaviour that results in greater take-up of home working, this paper applies...
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This paper evaluates environmental policy effects on ligno-cellulosic biomass production and environmental outcomes using an integrated bioeconomic optimization model. The environmental policy integrated climate (EPIC) model is used to simulate crop yields and environmental indicators in current...
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Methane, a major contributor to global warming, is a greenhouse gas emitted from coal mines. Abundance of coal mines and consequently a considerable amount of methane emission requires drastic measures to mitigate harmful effects of coal mining on the environment. One of the commonly adopted...
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China's Central government established national goals to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by 10% in both the 10th and 11th Five-year Plan periods, 2001–2005 and 2006–2010, respectively. But the early policies were unsuccessful at reducing emissions—emissions increased 28% during the...
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As it has long been debated who is a front-runner and who is a laggard state in terms of environmental protection it is rather surprising that the topic has received rather scant attention as far as quantitative, large-n research endeavours are concerned. Of course, there is a broad literature...
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Municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and disposal is a major urban environment issue in the world today. MSW management solutions have to be technologically feasible, legally and socially acceptable and environmentally and financially sustainable. European policy is pushing for a rational...
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energy (or fuel) poverty is slowly entering the EU's agenda, where it has crept into a number of regulatory documents and … poverty within (i) the organisational context of the EU; and (ii) national state institutions in Bulgaria – a member state … the existence of direct energy poverty related initiatives at the EU level. …
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This article tries to shed light on why gas relations between the EU and Russia, which were previously stable, have … structuring this sector. The model of vertically unbundled network industries promoted by the EU is no longer the one that Russia … a context where the economic stakes are very high. For the EU and its gas companies, access to Russia’s hydrocarbon …
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The EU Renewable Energy Strategy (RES) Directive requires that each member state obtain 20% of its energy supply from … significant role, and that the EU RES Directive implementation will be uneven across Europe, reflecting various welfare models …
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