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recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in … EGs, the EGs’ net exporters are more likely to see their local pollution to decrease, in particular thanks to income …
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(non-OECD) to capture pollution deviation. We use product level data to identify the goods subject to the conventions and …
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To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap-and-trade regime are the most concrete unilateral trade measure put forward to level the carbon playing field. If improperly implemented, such measures could disturb the world...
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rare earth production has confirmed the 'pollution haven' hypothesis about the environmentally harmful effects of FDI … low exploration, the dark side of the energy transition is becoming increasingly visible. These include pollution of soil … Direktinvestitionen in die Produktion von Seltenen Erden jedoch die ‚Pollution haven‘ Hypothese über die umweltschädlichen Auswirkungen …
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This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...
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The climate-trade nexus gains increasing attention as governments are taking great efforts to forge a post-2012 climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This raises the issues of the scope of trade-related measures and of when and how they could be used. This paper discusses how far...
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China, das Reich der Mitte, ist mit schwerwiegenden Umweltproblemen konfrontiert die hohe Kosten verursachen. Mit der zunehmenden Anwendung der Umwelttechnik kann der Herausforderung diese Problemfelder zu beheben sinnvoll begegnet werden. Die Indikatoren Wirtschaftswachstum, notwendiger Schutz...
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This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects …-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired electricity generating capacity for a sample 183 American cities …. The findings suggest that air pollution exacerbated the impact of the pandemic. Proximity to World War I military bases …
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only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient … econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … the effect of reductions in that pollution on long-term and short-term mortality, and benefit transfer methods to estimate …
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Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of the People's...
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