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The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy

Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on …

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Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy : Lessons from the Last Half Century

Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends....

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The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy

Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2020

This paper documents a new fact, then analyzes its causes and consequences: in most countries, import tariffs and non-tariff barriers are substantially lower on dirty than on clean industries, where an industry's "dirtiness" is defined as its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per dollar of output....

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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of over 14,400 firms in 77 countries. We find a widespread...

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Carbon Emissions Trading and Environmental Protection : International Evidence

Bai, Jennie; Ru, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how the implementation of emissions trading systems (ETS) impacts emissions reductions and the usage of renewable energy using a panel sample of the largest 100 countries worldwide. Exploiting the cross-country variations in ETS implementations, we show that ETS adoption materially...

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International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta

Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Current policies directed at mitigating global warming appear unlikely to prevent temperatures from rising to levels that would trigger a precipitous increase in the costs of climate change. Various attempts at international cooperation to avoid this outcome have failed. Why is this problem so...

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Global Transportation Decarbonization

Rapson, David S.; Muehlegger, Erich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

countries, it will face steep obstacles. In other sectors and in the developing world, it's not even in pole position. Global …

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Quantifying Climate Change Loss and Damage Consistent with a Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

Burke, Marshall; Zahid, Mustafa; Diffenbaugh, Noah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Climate change is generating demonstrable harm around the world. Political and legal efforts have sought to associate …

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Firm Commitments

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A growing fraction of companies globally have made commitments to reduce their carbon emissions by a certain date. While the companies that make commitments subsequently reduce their emissions, the effect on overall emissions of companies (including those that do not commit) has been small; the...

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The portfolio flows of international investors

Froot, Kenneth; O'Connell, Paul G. J.; Seasholes, Mark S. - 1998

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