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Climate mitigation and adaptation in Africa : evidence from patent data
Haščič, Ivan; Silva, Jérôme; Johnstone, Nick - 2012
This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in the context of Africa. Such analysis informs policy aimed at encouraging international technology transfer and development of domestic innovation capacities. We present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685852
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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015
This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519926
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Patent protection and the transition to clean technology
Alsina-Pujols, Maria; Hovdahl, Isabel - 2023
We analyze the use of patent protection as a new policy to direct technical change to clean technology. Contrary to … popular belief, it is dirty (and not clean) innovations that should be excluded from patent protection to reduce emissions. In … the shortrun, removing patent protection on dirty technology increases emissions. However, the reduced markup on dirty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333456
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Chapter 21. Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change
Popp, David; Newell, Richard G.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2010
Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025150
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Directed technical change with capital-embodied technologies : implications for climate policy
Lennox, James A.; Witajewski, Jan - 2014
We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403517
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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257289
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Climate change and labour-saving technologies : the twin transition via patent texts
Rughi, Tommaso; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023
-saving attributes. To accomplish the task, we draw on the universe of patent grants in the USPTO since 1976 to 2021 reporting the Y02-Y …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232649
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Knowledge spillovers from clean innovation : a tradeoff between growth and climate?
Martin, Ralf; Verhoeven, Dennis - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309349
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Climate change and cars in the EU : the roles of auto firms, consumers, and policy in responding to global environmental change
Whitmarsh, Lorraine; Köhler, Jonathan Hugh - In: Cambridge journal of regions economy and society 3 (2010) 3, pp. 427-441
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Modelling the Global Diffusion of Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Technology
Stern, David I. - 2014
The aim is to measure and understand the long-term factors behind trends in energy and carbon intensity in different economies and how improvements in energy efficiency diffuse globally. Of particular interest is the rate of diffusion from developed to developing countries and the factors that...
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