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Deforestation is considered a highly undesirable practice due to the destruction of local biomes and its effects on global warming. Governments around the world are seeking to adopt measures to control this activity and the international trade in wood and derivatives. Brazil, with the second...
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Deforestation is considered a highly undesirable practice due to the destruction of local biomes and its effects on global warming. Governments around the world are seeking to adopt measures to control this activity and the international trade in wood and derivatives. Brazil, with the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041061
This study quantifies CO2 emissions caused by consumption of natural gas, alcohol and petroleum derivatives for six Brazilian regions, and evaluates the impact of possible policies for emission control. The connection between the level of activity and CO2 emissions for each energy input is...
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Evaluation is a pillar of results-oriented public management, as necessary input to the decision making process, greater transparency in government actions, control the use of public resources and accountability to society. The evaluation of environmental policies is a relatively new field and...
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Evaluation is a pillar of results-oriented public management, as necessary input to the decision making process, greater transparency in government actions, control the use of public resources and accountability to society. The evaluation of environmental policies is a relatively new field and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010244170
O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar os impactos econômicos no Brasil quando ocorre uma mudança tecnológica no setor de cana-de-açúcar, em função de um aumento da demanda mundial por etanol. O instrumento utilizado para as simulações dos cenários, o GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project),...
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Spanish Abstract: El artículo describe los principales aspectos estructurales e institucionales del comercio justo y una mirada a las implicaciones que tienen las prácticas comerciales para generar beneficios hacia los mercados internacionales, el desarrollo empresarial y el fortalecimiento de...
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govern the environmental issue in these two actors. After considering the concept of power in terms of environment and trade … intentional connection between foreign trade and the environment, a characteristic exemplified in the simultaneity of the proposed … border carbon tax, whose effects are uncertain for the environment and predictable for traditional industrial sectors in both …
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This study examines the importance of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) in increasing Brazilian fruit exports. The adherence of producers to VSS is crucial due to the sensitivity of these products to quality, food safety, and sustainability, especially for accessing developed importing...
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The objective of this study is to verify the advantages and challenges of increasing certified cotton production and to analyze whether meeting the certification requirements guarantees Brazil access to the world market. As a way of answering these questions, data on the cotton production chain...
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