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emissions are regulated, oil producers using EOR should therefore be able to earn sequestration credits in addition to oil …
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California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 limits California's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020 to their … 1990 level. Global climate change is a pressing environmental problem, and the best possible public policies will be … required to address it. Therefore, analyses of prospective policies must themselves be of high quality, so that policymakers …
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emissions directly, policy makers may tax gasoline even though per-gallon emissions vary across vehicles. This paper estimates …. First, we show that vehicle emissions are positively correlated with vehicle elasticities for miles traveled with respect to … performs very poorly in eliminating deadweight loss associated with vehicle emissions; in many years in our sample over 75 …
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Reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change will require dramatic changes in the way that … technologies will be heavily influenced by government policy. Both environmental and R&D policies provide incentives encouraging … the development of clean technologies. Understanding the incentives provided by these policies, and their influence on the …
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Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity … would be technically feasible and cost-effective is carbon pricing, that is, market-based climate policies that place a … shadow-price on carbon dioxide emissions. We examine alternative designs of three such instruments - carbon taxes, cap …
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Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That system performed well but created four striking ironies. First, this system was put in place to curb acid rain, but the main...
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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The Urban Heat Island (UHI) provides direct evidence of how human activities contribute to a feedback loop that can result in multiple changes in ecosystem services by creating localized warming as well as differences in vegetated landscapes in areas surrounding the urban core. This paper...
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Urban ecologists have extended the bounds of this field to incorporate both the effects of human activities on ecological processes (e.g., humans as generators of disturbances), and the ways in which the structures, functions, and processes of urban ecosystems, and human alterations to them, in...
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participation and significant global CO2 emissions reductions at reasonable cost. We evaluate one important component of potential …
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