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double those of onshore wind. The result is explosive costs with little to show for either environmental or employment … benefits. Indeed, we document that the immense costs foreseen by Frondel and colleagues have materialized: Our updated estimate … growing at a rapid rate, these costs will continue to accumulate, diverting resources from more cost-effective climate …
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nicht erreicht -, ein Verlust an Effizienz - v.a. in Form unnötiger Kosten - und gegebenenfalls weitere unerwünschte …
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Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005, the highest growth rate in the OECD area. Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a...
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-efficient way. To achieve environmental goals at minimum cost across the economy the polluters should face the marginal costs of the …
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price based on production costs to promote efficient energy use. Given market failures, the government has a role to play in …
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We extend Copeland and Taylor (1995)'s analysis of the incidence of international trade on world transboundary pollution by considering that countries are endowed with two primary production factors, capital and labour.
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Has the EU Directive Proposal on CO2 trade been influenced by lobbyism and can it be improved? After hypothesizing how the EU may be vulnerable to lobbyism and why industrial groups have a strong incentive to lobby for favourable environmental regulation, we turn to empirical evidence concerning...
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Investment in network infrastructure – the energy, water, transport and telecommunication networks – which performs a vital role for the functioning of the economy, can contribute to raising growth and social welfare. But more is not always better. While the paper shows that investment in...
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Electric power is so vital to both our economic and personal wellbeing that the erstwhile state policy in most of the developing countries, including India, had vested the power industry in the hands of the state as a promotional agency for subsidized supply. However, with the onset of the...
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Agricultural and environmental policy changes have potentially large effects on Dutch agriculture and economy as a whole. The effects could be on inter-industry transactions, factor demand, income , trade, and environmental quality. The clear structure and flexibility make applied general...
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