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The environment: Chinese and American views
Ma, Laurence J. C. (contributor) - 1981
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Energy Consumption Response to Climate Change under Globalization: Options for India
Narayanan, K.; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
increasing. To account for the change in CO2 emission, we have followed index decomposition analysis using data from the PROWESS … database of the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy. Two factors are considered to account for the changes in emission … in reducing emission as compared to the output shifts across the sectors. Based on the findings and international …
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Life cycle energy, environment and economic assessment of soybean-based biodiesel as an alternative automotive fuel in China
Hu, Zhiyuan; Tan, Piqiang; Yan, Xiaoyu; Lou, Diming - In: Energy 33 (2008) 11, pp. 1654-1658
Life cycle energy, environment and economic assessment for conventional diesel (CD) and soybean-based biodiesel (SB) in China was carried out in this paper. The results of the assessment have shown that compared with CD, SB has similar source-to-tank (StT) total energy consumption, 76% lower StT...
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Implications and future direction of greenhouse gas emission mitigation policies in the building sector of China
Wang, Tao; Foliente, Greg; Song, Xinyi; Xue, Jiawei; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 31 (2014) C, pp. 520-530
A common starting point in assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction policy implications in the built environment is to look at industry specific policies. This paper addressed the glaring gap between national all-economy policy options that actually determine industry-specific programs, and...
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Environmental policy analysis : a general equilibrium approach
Xie, Jian - 1996
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Learning from China? : Development and environment in Third World countries
Glaeser, Bernhard (contributor) - 1987
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The bad earth
Smil, Vaclav - 1984
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Environmental policy and exports: Evidence from Chinese cities
Hering, Laura; Poncet, Sandra - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 68 (2014) 2, pp. 296-318
We study environmental regulation and its role for trade in China. Specifically, we assess the effectiveness of an environmental policy in China that introduced stricter regulations on sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in targeted cities. To identify the causal effect of this policy on exports, we...
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Natural Partners: How People in Latin America Are Forging a New Relationship with Their Natural Environment Title: Aliados naturales: La gente de América Latina forja una nueva rel...
Hamilton, Roger - Inter-American Development Bank
The stories included in this volume were published originally in IDBAmérica and tell of new approaches the people of Latin America and the Caribbean are taking to protect the rainforest, reduce erosion, conserve marine life, create protected areas, and ensure a better future for themselves and...
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When Should Developing Countries Announce Their Climate Policy?
Miller, Sebastian; Fernández, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper provides a rationale for developing countries to announce future credible commitments to reduce GHG emissions even if these are not to materialize in the short run, and for domestic reasons only. A simple framework is presented in which it is shown that it may be costly for an economy...
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