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Can monetary valuation undermine nature conservation? : evidence from a decision experiment

Rode, Julian; Le Menestrel, Marc; Cornelissen, Gert - 2015

Nature conservation scientists and practitioners have voiced the concern that a conservation discourse based on economic arguments and monetary valuation may undermine conservation efforts by eroding ("crowding out") the influence of other arguments for nature conservation. This paper presents...

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European Policies towards Palm Oil – Sorting Out some Facts

Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2009

This paper analyses the role of palm oil and its sustainability from different perspectives. We consider the role of palm oil within the GHG context. We discuss the impact of palm oil on biodiversity and analyse how palm oil can contribute to economic growth and development in tropical...

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Quo vadis European biofuel policy : the case of rapeseed biodiesel

Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2013

The European Unionś (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) continues to be the focus of much debate over the validity of biofuel sustainability. The debate is driven in part by ongoing concerns of transparency and regional variations of emissions from feedstock cultivation and processing. In a...

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How does the EU ETS reform impact allowance prices? : the role of myopia, hedging requirements and the Hotelling rule

Bocklet, Johanna; Hintermayer, Martin - 2020

This paper uses a discrete-time partial equilibrium model of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)to analyze the impact of the recent reform on allowance prices. By including bounded rationality such as myopia or hedging requirements, we find that the Hotelling price path is no longer...

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How does the EU ETS reform impact allowance prices? : the role of myopia, hedging requirements and the hotelling rule

Bocklet, Johanna; Hintermayer, Martin - 2020

This paper uses a discrete-time partial equilibrium model of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to analyze the impact of the recent reform on allowance prices. By including bounded rationality such as myopia or hedging requirements, we find that the Hotelling price path is no longer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291879

The green industrial revolution : investment pathways to decarbonize the industrial sector in Europe

Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023

The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...

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Green investment in the EU and the US : markup insights

Bruni, Anastasia - 2025

This paper examines the effect of green investments on market power. I measure the market power as markup following the method provided in De Loecker and Warzynski (2012). For green investments, I consider specifically the investments of firms in energy efficient technologies, both as the binary...

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From macroeconomic stability to welfare : optimizing fiscal rules in commodity-dependent economies

Heresi, Rodrigo; Villacis, Daniela Villacreces - 2023

We study the welfare and macroeconomic implications of simple and implementable fiscal policy rules in commodity-dependent economies, where a large share of output, exports, and government revenues depend on exogenous and volatile commodity prices. Using a multi-sector New Keynesian model...

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Investments and financial flows induced by climate mitigation policies

Bastianin, Andrea; Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2010

In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...

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Ökologisch nachhaltig oder nicht? : die Einführung der EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities : ein verbindliches Klassifikationssystem nachhaltiger Wirtschaftsaktivitäten in der EU

Friedrich, Peter; Wendland, Finn - 2021

in capital markets across the EU. This study sheds light on the impli-cations of the EU taxonomy for financial market … companies to access new sources of sustainable finance on capital markets and to close the investment gap to achieve …, to improve the functioning and alloca-tive efficiency of capital markets, and to leverage finance for sustainable …

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