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A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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Climate change mitigation and green growth in developing Asia

Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - 2012

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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The impacts of household water quality testing and information on safe water behaviors: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Okyere, Charles Yaw; Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Asante, … - 2017

Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater Accra region of Ghana were randomly selected to participate in the...

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Resolving Intergenerational Conflict over the Environment under the Pareto Criterion

Andersen, Torben M.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Liu, Pan - 2016

We describe a “business as usual” (BAU) economy in which pollution is a by-product of productive activity by the … pollution abatement and finances it via distorting taxes and borrowing on perfect international markets. Pollution levels start … pay off the debt, that too, in finite time. Along the transition, every generation faces less pollution, consumes more and …

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Economic growth and emissions: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for ECOWAS countries

Omotor, Douglason Godwin - In: West African Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration 17 (2017) 2, pp. 25-56

The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...

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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

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Analysis of the Impact of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on Greenho use Gas Emissions and Economic Growth in EU Member States

Mecu, Andra-Nicoleta; Chitu, Florentina; Marin, … - In: Amfiteatru Economic 25 (2023) Special Issue No. 17, pp. 1149-1163

The European Union has set ambitious goals for both energy efficiency and renewable energy use as part of its strategy to combat climate change. Using a panel data regression model that spans from 2012 to 2021, this study aims to evaluate how energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy...

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The new urban paradigm

Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018

This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...

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Comparative Analysis of the Growth Impact of Pollution and Energy Use in Selected West African Nations

Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo; Osuji, Emeka; Agbonrofo, Hope - 2022

emissions and a unidirectional causality from pollution to energy consumption. For Gambia, economic growth causes CO2 emissions …

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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions: New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries

Abdeljelil, Mouna Ben; Rault, Christophe; Belaïd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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