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carbon emission savings, using renewable energy usage as an individual source or in combination with traditional sources of … research, we analyze the impact of renewable energy development on carbon emission reduction. We estimate a model to evaluate … the effectiveness of renewable energy development, technological innovation, and market regulations in carbon emission …
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home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have … association with home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions.We find that the association between household …
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this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery service, where customers are offered carbon … offsets that compensate for emissions. To estimate demand for carbon mitigation, I randomize whether the delivery service … subsidizes the price of the offset or matches the offset's impact on carbon mitigation. I find that consumers are price …
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could be applied to reducing carbon emissions, such as enhancing renewable energy deployment and encouraging technological …Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In … recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas …
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International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...
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implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon … dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981 …–2005. Our results show that in the long-run energy consumption has a positive significant impact on CO2 emissions. More …
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This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and …
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We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three … accompanied by an increase in income per capita of nearly 7% while still lowering carbon emissions. In the second part of our …
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This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
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Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...
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