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The cold economy
Peters, Toby; Sayin, Leyla - 2022
Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people's livelihoods, productivity, health, food, and nutritional security. While business-as-usual demand projections suggest 19 new cooling appliances will be sold every second by...
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Climate Neutrality and Sustainability in International Trade
Leal-Arcas, Rafael; Ulloa Martinez, Luis; Abang, Victory; … - 2022
This article explores the links between climate neutrality and sustainability in the context of international trade. For that, it tackles seven main concerns: 1) what do industry leaders now need from policymakers to make them the frontrunners in the global transition to climate neutrality? 2)...
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Korea's Green Growth Strategy : Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines
Jones, Randall - 2011
Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005, the highest growth rate in the OECD area. Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a...
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Climate Change Meets Trade in Promoting Green Growth : Potential Conflicts and Synergies
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
actions comparable to that of home country. This discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, the paper argues that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, there should be: 1) a period of …
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Climate Change Meets Trade in Promoting Green Growth : Potential Conflicts and Synergies
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
actions comparable to that of home country. Our discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, we argue that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO rules … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, 1) there should be a period of good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200601
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The Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities in the International Regime of Climate Change
Ibrahim, Imad Antoine; Deleuil, Thomas; Farah, Paolo Davide - 2017
“Preventing future calamity requires not only agreement but action. Governments and other responsible groups are usually accused of reacting to crises rather than foreseeing and preventing them. We have an opportunity here to show that experts, scientists, lawyers, and governments can foresee...
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China's Energy Policies and Strategies for Climate Change and Energy Security
Deng, Haifeng; Farah, Paolo Davide - 2021
National energy security, parallel with the ultimate goal of emissions reductions, is of utmost priority for the Chinese government. In order to comply with the requirements set by the Kyoto Protocol, the Chinese government announced, on 25 November 2009, that 2020’s CO2 emissions would be...
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The rise and fall of bioenergy
Hoel, Michael - 2018
, and later a reduction. Optimal taxes and subsidies are derived both for the first-best case and for the case of a …
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Commitment Versus Discretion in Climate and Energy Policy
Habermacher, Florian; Lehmann, Paul - In: Environmental and Resource Economics 76 (2020) 1, pp. 39-67
To decarbonize the power sector, policy-makers need to commit to long-term credible rules for climate and energy policy. Otherwise, risk of opportunistic policy-making will impair investments into low-carbon technologies. However, the future benefits and costs of decarbonization are subject to...
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Commitment vs. discretion in climate and energy policy
Habermacher, Florian; Lehmann, Paul - 2017
-contingent renewable subsidies outperforms both unconditional commitment and discretion. The choice between the practically more feasible …
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