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significantly to noise pollution which further reduces the quality of life of users and non-users alike …
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undertaken by the World Bank in its initiative to support Brazil's integrated effort towards reducing national and global …
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assess these health impacts and related costs. The paper focuses on the translation of air pollution levels into health … challenges: (1) identify and measure the health effects of air pollution, and (2) to estimate the costs of the health effects …; chapter two gives impacts of air pollution from transport on health; chapter three presents valuation of health impacts …
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The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest … stages of life and later-life health. The results show that pollution exposure experienced in the critical years of …
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This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...
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contributed to limit global carbon dioxide emissions at the current level; otherwise, the world's current carbon dioxide emissions …
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proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy is built on three pillars: leveraging … summary of the external literature on co-benefits; section three gives review of examples from the World Bank portfolio …
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This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to...
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Declining water quality can impact the economy in various ways. Impacts can be found in the health sector, where labor productivity can be affected, in agriculture, where the quality and quantity of food produced can be reduced, and in tourism, real estate, aquaculture/fisheries and other...
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This paper revisits the relationship between energy intensity and economic growth, using a flexible piecewise linear regression model. Based on a panel data set of 137 economies during 1990-2014, the analysis identifies a threshold effect of income growth on energy intensity change: although...
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