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Law, Policy, and the Future of Solar Financing
Payne, Heather - 2017
All forms of renewable energy are at an inflection point. Falling costs, changing technology, and new environmental and climate regulations have all moved to exponentially increase the growth of renewable energy. How legal terms, such as "qualifying facility" under PURPA are interpreted and...
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Programs, prices and policies towards energy conservation and environmental quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
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The water-wastewater-sludge sector and the circular economy
Lipinska, Danuta - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 21 (2018) 4, pp. 121-137
opportunities of the water-sewage-sludge industry in the implementation of the circular economy. To realize this objective, a review … and the general characteristics of the analyzed sector, with a particular focus on the potential for the recovery of water … goals of the water-sewage-sludge sector and the circular economy. (2) it is necessary to seek and implement new solutions …
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Processing Remote Sensing Data Using Erdas Imagine for Mapping Aegean Sea Region, Turkey (Presentation Slides)
Lemenkova, Polina - 2019
The presentation shows using Erdas Imagine software for processing remote sensing data with a case study of Landsa TM images classified to detected land cover types in Aegean region, west Turkey. Two images were processed using Erdas Imageine, classified and changes in landscapes compared. The...
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Seafloor Mapping of the Atlantic Ocean by GMT : Visualizing Mid-Atlantic Ridge Spreading, Sediment Distribution and Tectonic Development
Lemenkova, Polina - 2020
The study presents the insights of the tectonic development and geological settings of the Atlantic Ocean supported by cartographic visualization in Generic Mapping Tools (GMT). The aim is to study geologic situation and trends in the tectonic development of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Atlantic...
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Predicting Nitrification Efficiency from Dissimilar Wastewaters : Design Criteria & Operations Results
Jowett, E Craig - 2021
An extended aeration sewage treatment plant on an island camp in Georgian Bay performed fair to well for BOD, TSS and TP removal, but was unable to nitrify ammonium to compliance levels for surface discharge. The raw sewage is from residential and kitchen sources, but is often high strength...
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The Seychelles Blue Bond : Good for Business and the Planet
Kemper, Karin - 2021
In this seminal primer re the Seychelles blue bond, Karin Kemper, Global Director for Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy, World Bank, looks at the crossroads where fixed income issuance, long-term investment and development finance intersect.With help from the World Bank and HRH The...
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Towards net zero emissions in Denmark
Barker, Andrew - 2022
Denmark has been a frontrunner in policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and now plans to cut emissions by 70% by 2030 from 1990 levels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Such ambition induces halving emissions from 2019 levels and making the same emission abatement effort in ten...
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Environmental taxation in Europe : what does it depend on?
Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide; Minervini, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-8
The present work adds to the existing literature the analysis of the determinants of environmental taxation in European economies. Using a pooled panel data, we consider various groups of factors influencing environmental taxation referring to production and consumption, environmental...
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On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes
Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...
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