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This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...
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. Among our findings, we show that, in the absence of renewable energy sources and break-through technologies, meeting the … limit of a temperature increase of less than 2êC requires a carbon tax of more than 700 USD/tC by 2050, doubling by the end … greater the associated utility loss, the more society is willing to pay for a rising cost of carbon. The upward trend of the …
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comparisons across regions. Thanks to the theoretical structure of the model, which considers energy as an explicit input factor …, we examine macroeconomic and energy indicators across regions. We find that a general slow down in economic growth is … needed to decrease emissions and keep temperature change within 2êC by the end of this century. Our results are embedded in a …
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Climate change is one of the pressing issues of our time, and carbon emissions caused by industrial production are … among its most important drivers. This paper analyses how multi-product firms adjust to an increase in the cost of emissions … (e.g. due to the introduction of emissions pricing) in terms of their output, product mix, and technology, and how their …
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This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … desired levels according to the prescription of the SDG of per water, energy and food capita consumption is reached by each … investment have a positive accelerating effect on food convergence as well as on energy convergence. …
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levels, while reducing GHG emissions to converge to carbon concentrations of 450 ppm. Here we repeat our optimization but … renders possible responding to the climate-change challenge by moving away from energy-intensive commodities and towards less …
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This paper examines the long-run relationship between income and urban air pollution using a joint distribution dynamics approach. This approach enables to estimate the transition process and long-run distribution and to examine the mechanisms behind the evolution process. The approach is...
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We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
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dirty resource extractions and pollution emissions for fear of dirty assets becoming stranded - the Green Paradox effect …
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emissions. Our results show that the opening of high-speed rail reduces local carbon emissions significantly. This finding is … findings, we recommend that China should support the expansion of high-speed rail in order to reduce carbon emissions in a …Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high-speed rail for other energy …
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