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While sustainability issues increasingly gain importance for new product design, they also further complicate the NPD … process. In many cases it is hard to exactly measure the socio-environmental impact of new products, and sustainability … targets may conflict with other ones. Innovators can aim to manage these challenges by turning to voluntary sustainability …
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current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world … sustainability may occur, in spite of an expected increase in world domestic product. Finally, dedicated policies increase overall …
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This study investigates the growing importance of sustainability in financial markets by estimating the extent of … capitalisation of companies' commitment to sustainability on their market value. The spreading concern for social and environmental … issues, and especially for the material risks of climate change, induces policymakers to prioritise sustainability issues …
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environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world's economic growth, particularly when the emission of …
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We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...
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The paper surveys the state of knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences of a country's development strategy along three channels: (i) direct trade-environment linkages (overexploitation of natural resources and trade-related transport costs);(ii) "virtual trade" in emissions...
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This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...
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We report robust evidence of adverse cross-border externalities from terrorism on trade for over 160 countries from 1976 to 2014. Terrorism in one country spills over to reduce trade in neighboring nations. These externalities arise from higher trade costs due to trade delays and macroeconomic...
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