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This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European trading system of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
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China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels … other costs and reduce well-being. The 12th Five Year Plan aims at further reducing pollution and at other environmental …
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The degradation of the environment due to climate change and pollution can harm living standards and damage growth … accumulated over the years highlight the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution in a cost ….oecd.org/eco/surveys/Belgium).<P>Une croissance plus verte en Belgique<BR>La dégradation de l’environnement due au changement climatique et à la pollution peut porter …
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China has embarked on an ambitious and unprecedented programme of energy reform and climate change mitigation. Yet the motivations for this important shift remain unclear. This paper surveys key central government documents and articles by China's leading energy academics to investigate the...
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pollution and economic difficulties. Therefore, the need for utilising renewable energy resources has emerged. Although Jordan …
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pollution and economic difficulties. Therefore, the need for utilising renewable energy resources has emerged. Although Jordan …
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Strategic plans in the energy sector have the overall objective of the use of renewable energy, especially wind power, hydroelectricity, biomass intending a considerable increase in the share it has in total energy production. Thus, chase is moving towards an economy based on low carbon...
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The connection between the emerging field of sustainability science and the economics of sustainable development has motivated a line of interdisciplinary research inspired by the notion of oppositive sustainability.Ó This notion is founded on three principles or pillars: (1) adopting a complex...
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A number of international jurisdictions have articulated a longer term goal of zero emission housing standards. However, in Australia, housing energy efficiency remains a contested policy area. In part, this is due to a lack of clear cost-benefit information on low emission housing standards,...
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Sustainable development and sustainable economy are mostly used concepts. Understanding clearly their meaning allows their use in an appropriate context and, therefore, their boundaries in terms of theoretical and practical approaches on which occasion it can be given their interdependencies....
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