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Climate change is a significant threat to sustainable development (SD). Using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI) a decomposition of the data on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2000-2013 is carried out. To detect if decoupling of the environmental variable...
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Understanding the global energy network and the developments of energy efficiency is key to advance energy regulation and fight climate change. We develop a global panel dataset on energy usage inventories based on territorial production, final production and consumption over 1997-2014. We apply...
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the NGO's connected with environment protection and organic farming. The CAP financial instruments were not sufficiently …
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We study the effects of market integration on manufacturing emission intensities of CO 2, SO x, and NO x. For this, we analyse the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargements in a sub-sectoral panel with data on almost all EU member states from 1995 to 2015. We pay close attention to relevant channels of...
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From its initial focus on minimizing waste generation, the circular economy has evolved into a broad-based approach to make resource use more sustainable. A big part of the appeal of a circular economy is the opportunities it creates not only for resource savings and better human health and...
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This document examines the successes and failures of the present Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna (CITES) and analyses its defects. Major changes are needed in the structure of the Treaty to overcome its perceived shortcomings. A Vision for a new treaty is...
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effects on the quality of the environment are still being debated. To achieve sustainable development, eco-innovation becomes … economic growth and improves the quality of the environment. Purpose - to present how EU Member States perform in economic … growth, environment and eco-innovation development and to evaluate eco-innovations impact on economic and environmental …
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, this study analyses the effects of overall globalization and its three sub-dimensions (economic, political, and social … globalization) on the rate of e-waste recycling. The results indicate that overall globalization and its three sub-dimensions have a … contributing to the circular economy. Therefore, supporting all aspects of globalization (economic, political, and social) will …
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We investigate the community structure of the global ownership network of transnational corporations. We find a pronounced organization in communities that cannot be explained by randomness. Despite the global character of this network, communities reflect first of all the geographical location...
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Countries through the world have experienced increased globalization over the last several decades facilitated by …. However, a globalization gap exists dividing those countries with greater globalization from those countries with less … globalization. Therefore, the two major questions of this research are: first, whether countries with low level of globalization in …
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