Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 446
Cover Image
How restricting carbon dioxide and methane emissions would affect the Indian economy : background paper for World development report 1992
Blitzer, Charles R. (contributor) - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000885766
Cover Image
Paris climate agreement and the global economy : winners and losers
Mani, Muthukumara S.; Hussein, Zekarias; Narayanan, Badri; … - 2018
China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843864
Cover Image
Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement
Strand, Jon - 2019
This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058963
Cover Image
Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure
Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019
The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004784
Cover Image
Carbon taxes, the greenhouse effect and developing countries : prepared as a background report for the World development report 1992
Shah, Anwar; Larsen, Bjorn - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000885770
Cover Image
World fossil fuel subsidies and global carbon emissions in a model with interfuel substitution
Larsen, Bjorn - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000143418
Cover Image
Global tradeable carbon permits, participation incentives and transfers
Larsen, Bjorn; Shah, Anwar - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000148302
Cover Image
The growth of transport sector CO 2 emissions and underlying factors in Latin America and the Caribbean
Timilsina, Govinda R. (contributor);  … - 2008
"This study examines the factors responsible for the growth of transport sector carbon dioxide emissions in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during 1980-2005 by decomposing the emissions growth into components associated with changes in fuel mix, modal shift, and economic growth, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759248
Cover Image
Carbon markets, institutions, policies and research
Larson, Donald Frederick; Ambrosi, Philippe; Dinar, Ariel; … - 2008
"The scale of investment needed to slow greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital. This is especially true in the case of the Kyoto Protocol with its provisions for trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771208