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Environment and growth
Horii, Ryo; Ikefuji, Masako - 2014
This paper examines the implications of the mutual causality between environmental quality and economic growth. While economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn limits the possibility of further economic growth. In a...
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Can climate policy enhance sustainability?
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Davide, Marinella; … - 2013
Implementing an effective climate policy is one of the main challenges for our future. Even though ambitious mitigation targets are necessarily costly, curbing GHG emissions can prevent future irreversible impacts of climate change on human kind and the environment. Climate policy is therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702197
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...
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Methods for modeling public policy and investment impacts on the economy, natural capital and ecosystem services
Banerjee, Onil; Crossman, Neville; Vargas, Renato; … - 2020
The year 2020 is a critical year for sustainable development policy and practice with the review and renewal of various international commitments including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Paris Agreement. The post-2020 agenda needs to be informed...
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The integrated economic-environmental modelling framework : an illustration with Guatemala’s forest and fuelwood sector
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Vargas, Renato; … - 2016
This paper develops and operationalizes the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling (IEEM) platform which integrates environmental data organized under the first international standard for environmental-economic accounting with a powerful economy-wide modelling approach. IEEM enables the...
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A quantitative assessment of strategies to achieve the sustainable development goals : an application to Guatemala
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Horridge, Mark; … - 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty and protect the environment. The Government of Guatemala is prioritizing the SDGs it will focus on and defining lines of action to make progress towards achieving them. In this paper, we apply the Integrated...
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Rethinking Venice from an ecosystem services perspective
Da Mosto, Jane; Bertolini, Camilla; Markandya, Anil; … - 2020
Safeguarding the future of Venice is a globally recognised challenge of urban sustainability. We propose a sustainable management model, alternative to the current strategy, that primarily focuses on the built heritage and which interprets the city together with its encircling lagoon as a matrix...
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What should we expect from innovation? : a model-based assessment of the environmental and mitigation cost implications of climate-related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …
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China's pursuit of environmentally sustainable development : harnessing the new engine of technological innovation
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016
investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …
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Adoption of eco and circular economy-innovation in Italy : exploring different firm profiles
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, Francesco; Pareglio, … - 2022
2019. The set of questions span from economic and financial performances to innovation adoption (product, process … protection, eco-innovation) of the ecological/sustainability transition. If the one-size-fits-all has not been proved a viable …
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