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The mismatch between actions to combat climate change, which are based on voluntary national initiatives of limited effort, and the recognition of the importance of global warming is growing. Climate engineering via solar radiation management has been proposed as a possible complement to...
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Long-term Strategies for Decarbonization, termed long-term low emissions and development strategies (LT-LEDS) by the …
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electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and …
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emissions reduction/avoidance of 75 percent for the period 2020 to 2030, referenced against a projected business … adaptation/resilience and driven by their impact sustainable development rather than by GHG emissions reductions per se. This is …
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The rising burden of disease counts as one of the most salient concerns of a warming climate. These risks are especially serious in populous, rapidly growing urban landscapes of low-income, tropical countries. Surat, located on the banks of the River Tapi, has temperature and humidity patterns...
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needed to support the social optimum. We then analyze the effects of these taxes on urban spatial structure. Emissions are … heights, generating a more-compact city with a lower level of emissions per capita. …
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We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate … and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as the overall stringency of climate policies. We use dynamic panel … mix. We find that higher carbon taxes and prices of permits in ETS reduce carbon emissions. An increase in carbon taxes by …
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(RPS) on electricity price, CO2 emissions, fossil fuel electricity generation, and two kinds of renewable generation. We …
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-year horizon. As a proxy for environmental policy exposure, we estimate firm-level greenhouse gas emissions using a machine …
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