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Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program
Burtraw, Dallas; Palmer, Karen L.; Kahn, Danny - 2005
Cap-and-trade programs for air emissions have become the widely accepted, preferred approach to cost-effective pollution reduction. One of the important design questions in a trading program is how to initially distribute the emissions allowances. Under the Acid Rain program created by Title IV...
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Climate Change Catastrophes
Pizer, William A. - 2003
Most studies that compare price and quantity controls for greenhouse gas emissions under uncertainty find that price mechanisms perform substantially better. In these studies, the benefits from reducing emissions are proportional to the level of reductions, and such linear benefits strongly...
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CO2 Allowance Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Effect on Electricity Investors
Burtraw, Dallas; Kahn, Danny; Palmer, Karen L. - 2005
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is an effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to develop a regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector. The initiative is expected to lead to an increase in the...
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An EU Sky Trust: Distributional Analysis for Hungary
Ferjentsik, Viola; Ash, Michael - 2007
We analyze the effects of EU adoption of a Sky Trust (Barnes and Breslow 2003) on the income distribution of Hungary, a lower-middle income EU member. We use plausible parameters for an EU carbon charge and revenue recycling system, input-output data to track the effect of a carbon charge on...
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Organizational Adaptation and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events
Martina Linnenluecke - 2010
Impacts from climate change already pose major challenges for organizations and industrial systems, and vulnerabilities are expected to increase in the future, particularly in vulnerable sectors and locations. Findings by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that climate...
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Legal issues for implementing the clean development mechanism in China
Jiang, Xiaoyi - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010
Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics worldwide. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the three financial mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol open to developing and developed countries, was devised to assist in mitigation of global warming. Since it was initiated,...
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PRACTICING GREEN BUSINESS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIA: PERCEPTION AND COGNIZANCE OF RESEARCHERS
Mahboob Ali, Muhammad Mahboob; Yadav, Sudhir K.S.; … - 2017
‘Green Business’ has risen in prominence. Green supply chain management is a concept that is gaining popularity in the South East Asian region especially in India. For many organizations in India, it is a way to demonstrate their sincere commitment to sustainability. For this purpose a...
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The Income-Temperature Relationship in a Cross-Section of Countries and its Implications for Predicting the Effects of Global Warming.
Horowitz, John K. - 2009
Hotter countries are poorer on average. This paper attempts to separate the historical and contemporaneous components of this income-temperature relationship. Following ideas by Acemoglu et al. (Am Econ Rev 91(5):1369-1401, 2001), we use colonial mortality data to account for the historical role...
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An Evaluation of Integrated Climate Protection Policies for the United States
Bernow, Stephen; Duckworth, Max - 1998
four decades. This innovation path also aims to promote environmental quality, particularly by reducing emissions of … criteria air pollutants, to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, and to induce technological innovation and diffusion in … energy production and consumption. The innovation path would reduce economy-wide carbon emissions by 26% below baseline …
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Innovación financiera para una economía sostenible
Alonso, Andrés; Marqués Sevillano, José Manuel - 2019
El cambio climático, su gestión y mitigación, constituye sin duda uno de los elementos de riesgo más importantes que afrontará nuestra sociedad en las próximas décadas. El sector financiero desempeña un papel fundamental en este reto, tanto por su exposición y las consiguientes...
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