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China's Pursuit of Environmentally Sustainable Development : Harnessing the New Engine of Technological Innovation

Jin, Wei - 2016

Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and global environmental governance. Building on a...

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Making China the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy : Key Challenges and Responses

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016

China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community's perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...

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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...

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Environmental Security and its Implications for China’s Foreign Relations

Zhang, ZhongXiang; Mochizuki, Junko - 2014

China’s emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the twenty-first century, and is thus perceived by the...

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Adaptation, Mitigation and 'Green' R&D to Combat Global Climate Change. Insights from an Empirical Integrated Assessment Exercise

Bosello, Francesco - 2015

This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatement is enriched with a planned-adaptation module where a defensive...

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Second Best Environmental Policies under Uncertainty

Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Koundouri, Phoebe - 2010

We construct a strategic trade model of an international duopoly, whereby production by exporting firms generates a local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for rent shifting purposes. Contrary to their firm, however,...

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Tradable Permits vs. Ecological Dumping

Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Koundouri, Phoebe - 2010

In this paper we examine an alternative policy scenario, where governments allow polluting firms to trade permits in a strategic environmental policy model. We demonstrate, among other things, that with no market power in the permits market, governments of the exporting firms do not have an...

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Can the Diligent Governance Increase Subjective Wellbeing? New Evidence From Environmental Regulations in China

GUO, Shu; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2022

With the appearance of “wellbeing stagnation”, the Chinese government has gradually realized the negative impact of increasingly severe environmental problem on people’s wellbeing, and has then has formulated a series of environmental policies. Based on the balanced panel data from2014 to...

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Regulatory stringency and emission leakage mitigation

Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Tsakiris, Nikos - In: Environmental and resource economics 87 (2024) 6, pp. 1407-1424

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Macro-Economic Impact Assessment of Future Changes in European Marine Ecosystem Services

Bosello, Francesco - 2015

The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project. The main scope of the project (2011 … the EU marine ecosystem in the medium term (2030). We focus on those changes potentially affecting the fishing and the … marine ecosystem quality.Impacts on EU coastal countries Gross Domestic Product are negative and larger when the tourism …

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