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Green Growth and Climate Change Policies in New Zealand
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
New Zealand, as a resource-based economy anxious to protect and promote its clean-and-green image, appropriately sees green growth as a natural direction for future development. The country’s environment is of high quality, and depletion of its abundant natural resources is for the most part...
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Towards net zero emissions in Denmark
Barker, Andrew - 2022
for more transformative policies to expand alternatives to individual car uses. In agriculture, little has been done so …
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Achieving the transition to net zero in Australia
Leandro, Alvaro - 2024
historical reliance on coal generation and the presence of significant mining and agriculture sectors. It will require a rapid … transformation of the electricity grid, significant emissions reductions in highly-polluting sectors such as industry and agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567904
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Accelerating the EU’s green transition
Borowiecki, Martin - 2023
the net zero target. These include an extension of emission trading to agriculture and the phase-out of generous subsidies …
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The Agri-food Situation and Policies in Switzerland
Jarrett, Peter; Moeser, Charlotte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
This paper examines the heavily supported Swiss food and agriculture sector. It reviews some of the key features and …
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Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in the United States
OBrien, Paul - 2001
agriculture and road transport, sectors with an important influence on the environment, as well as to the use of cost …
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Cost Effective Way in Switzerland
Wölfl, Anita; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Switzerland has low greenhouse gas emissions per capita as compared to other countries, which reflects the strong reliance on energy sources emitting few greenhouse gas emissions, especially in electricity generation, and little heavy industry. Greenhouse gas emissions have remained almost the...
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Boosting Productivity in Australia
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Barbiero, Omar - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly, especially if the currently strong terms of trade weaken...
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Reforming Agriculture and Promoting Japan's Integration in the World Economy
Jones, Randall S.; Kimura, Shingo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The problems of Japanese agriculture – in particular low productivity and the prevalence of part-time farmers and small … plots have been evident for the past 50 years. The high level and distortionary nature of agriculture support imposes … future of the agricultural sector. In the absence of fundamental reform, the Japanese agriculture will continue to wither …
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