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Dilemmas of energy transitions in the global south: Balancing urgency and justice
Kumar, Ankit (contributor); Höffken, Johanna I. (contributor) - 2021
argues that while urgency is critical for energy transitions in a climate-changed world, we must be wary of conflating goals … energy transitions can be done in different parts of the world. Overall, driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility …
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Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change
Tol, Richard S.J. - 2013
modified Ramsey rule is simpler and identical to regional equity weights. I apply the modified Ramsey rules to estimates of the …
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"The Greening of America": neue Dynamik zum Amtsantritt von Präsident Obama
von Hirschhausen, Christian; Holz, Franziska; Kemfert, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 3, pp. 46-50
-Präsident Barack Obama hat nun aber einen Umschwung in der Klima- und Energiepolitik angekündigt. Er hat bereits den prominenten Physik … und Klimaschutz entworfen. Bis 2020 soll der CO2-Ausstoß auf das Niveau von 1990 zurückgeführt werden. Das langfristige … begrüßen, dass Europa damit einen Verbündeten in den internationalen Bemühungen um den Klimaschutz gewinnt. Die USA könnten …
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Development trajectories, emission profile, and policy actions: Singapore
Doshi, Tilak K.; D'Souza, Neil Sebastian - 2013
Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and natural gas imports to satisfy its energy needs. Its national energy policy framework seeks to find a balance between maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy...
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Efficiency and Equity Implications of Alternative Instruments to Reduce Carbon Leakage
Böhringer, Christoph; Carbone, Jared C.; Rutherford, … - 2012
both efficiency and equity criteria matter. Border tax adjustments reduce leakage and provide global cost savings but …
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Relationship Between CO2 Emissions and Trade: The Case of the EU
Steinhauser, Dušan; Kittová, Zuzana; Khúlová, Lucia - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 1, pp. 41-47
Understanding the relationship between international trade and CO2 emissions is crucial for designing appropriate measures to address climate change. This article focuses on CO2 emissions as one of the trade flow determinants of the EU countries, along with other factors including remoteness,...
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Voluntary Corporate Climate Initiatives and Regulatory Loom: Batten Down the Hatches
Ilic, Dragan; Mollet, Janick Christian - 2016
The rationale of voluntary corporate initiatives is often explained with anticipation of future regulation. We test this hypothesis for the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the Climate Leaders (CL), two popular voluntary US environmental programs to curb carbon emission that were operating...
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Climate Uncertainty and the Necessity to Transform Global Energy Supply
van der Zwaan, Bob; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004
This paper analyses the policy relevance of the dominant uncertainties in our current scientific understanding of the terrestrial climate system, and provides further evidence for the need to radically transform - this century - our global infrastructure of energy supply, given the global...
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Treibhausgas-Emissionen nehmen weltweit zu: keine Umkehr in Sicht
Ziesing, Hans-Joachim - In: DIW Wochenbericht 70 (2003) 39, pp. 577-587
Sechs Jahre nach der Verabschiedung des Kyoto-Protokolls im Dezember 1997 sind die meisten Länder der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft noch weit von den damals verabredeten Klimaschutzzielen entfernt. Im Jahre 2001 lagen die Treibhausgas-Emissionen in den OECD-Ländern, die im...
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Erfolgskontrolle in der Klimapolitik
Hanck, Christoph; Voss, Gerhard - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 30 (2003) 1, pp. 5-12
Die globale Klimapolitik befindet sich in einer Sackgasse. Während die Klimaforscher drastische Maßnahmen fordern, um die Emissionen von Klimagasen zu begrenzen, nimmt der Ausstoß dieser Gase zu. Wird die Entwicklung der Treibhausgasemissionen allein am Kohlendioxid gemessen, muss weltweit...
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