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Improving institutional coherence: Managing interplay between trade and climate change

Stilwell, Matthew - 2009

last year has seen a rising tide of public concern, as well as pronouncements by the world's leading scientific body on … economic activity and international trade. According to the Stern Review, authored by the former World Bank Senior Economist … Sir Nicolas Stern, "climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen". Responding to climate change …

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Cost heterogeneity and the potential savings from market-based policies

Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

Policy makers and analysts are often faced with situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of reducing costs, relative to conventional uniform standards. We develop analytic expressions that can be employed with modest amounts of information to estimate the...

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Trotz Klimaschutzabkommen: weltweit steigende CO2-Emissionen

Ziesing, Hans-Joachim - In: DIW Wochenbericht 73 (2006) 35, pp. 485-499

Der weltweite Klimaschutz hat im vergangenen Jahr erneut einen Rückschlag erlitten. Nach vorläufi gen Schätzungen stiegen die Emissionen von Kohlendioxid (CO2 ), dem mit weitem Abstand wichtigsten Treibhausgas, im Jahre 2005 gegenüber 2004 weltweit um etwa 2,5 %; gegenüber 1990 betrug der...

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Durch geringere Methanemissionen können Klimaziele kostengünstiger erreicht werden: Neun Fragen an Wolf-Peter Schill

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 39, pp. 657

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Exploring a technology strategy for stabilizing atmospheric CO 2

Edmonds, Jae; Wise, Marshall A. - 1998

The goal of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) is to stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at levels which avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate (United Nations, 1992). This paper examines the performance and cost characteristics...

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Global inventory of Wetlands and their role in the carbon cycle

Mitra, Sudip; Wassmann, Reiner; Vlek, Paul L. G. - 2003

published world maps on wetland resources only coincide in 20-30 % of the identified wetland area. Our compilation of data on …

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Carbon Emissions Trends for Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition

Schumacher, Katja; Sathaye, Jayant - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 4, pp. 614-634

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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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Is the EU Fit for 55 and Beyond?

Rusche, Christian; Schaefer, Thilo - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 2, pp. 77-82

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For a fair and effective industrial climate transition: Support measures for heavy industry in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

Bollen, Yelter; Van Hauwaert, Tycho; Beys, Olivier - 2021

Europe's industrial base needs to undergo a swift and persistent transformation towards carbon neutrality and circularity, but this transition must happen in a fair and socially just manner. In this working paper, we evaluate the support mechanisms for heavy industry which have been put in place...

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