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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin - 2012
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world …'s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to understanding tropical deforestation …
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Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture
Jaffe, Judson L.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2021
greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism -- an international emission …
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An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2014
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The Distribution of Environmental Damages
Hsiang, Solomon - 2017
empirical investigations. We apply our framework to findings related to the economic impact of air pollution, deforestation, and …
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Cash for Carbon : A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation
Jayachandran, Seema - 2016
which received the program for two years. The PES program reduced deforestation and forest degradation: Tree cover, measured …
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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail : Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota
Clay, Karen - 2017
This paper constructs new estimates of the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs from long-distance movement of petroleum products by rail and pipelines. While crude oil transportation has generated intense policy debate about rail and pipeline spills and accidents, important externalities –...
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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's Reclaim Program
Mansur, Erin - 2019
We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a counterfactual command-and-control policy. We develop a normatively significant metric with which to rank the various distributions in a manner consistent with an explicit...
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Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions : Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2012
In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes account of the generation mix within interconnected electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099410
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Up in Smoke : the Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema - 2012
and health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107019