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Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little evidence that climate aid actually encourages...
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generate significant pollution problems and risks to human health and the environment. Over one billion people living in low …, there are opportunities for reducing pollution, alleviating poverty, improving the urban environment, and lowering …
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In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
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declining catch from capture fisheries. Yet, the competition for space between capture fisheries and cage culture, pollution … account for (i) space allocation, pollution, and interaction of markets for fish; and (ii) foreign capital financing … aquaculture production. We found that a Pigouvian tax (optimum ad valorem tax) that corrects the externalities depends on economic …
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This paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient technologies. We conclude that political economy...
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standards. These lapses in regulatory oversight and enforcement have led to high levels of pollution in many mining communities …. The likelihood is high that the risk of pollution-related sicknesses, such as skin infections, upper and lower respiratory …' exposure to mining pollution using data obtained on gold mining in Ghana. The empirical results confirm that, after controlling …
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This research studies whether the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol achieves its objective of emission reductions in the host countries. It empirically investigates the impacts of CDM projects on CO2 emission reductions for 60 CDM host countries over 2005-10. This research...
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Agriculture is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in China. This paper aims to identify the key factors that have led to rising GHG emissions in China's agricultural sector in recent decades. This research allows for spatial dependence across provinces, making use of regional...
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As the world battles with the triple problems of social, economic, and environmental challenges, it has become important to focus both policy and research efforts on these. Therefore, this study examines the effect of wealth inequality on CO2 emissions in five emerging economies: Brazil, Russia,...
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hypotheses about the relationship between illness, connections to the new system, and the role of pollution of natural water …
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