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province of Canada. This issue assumes a value added since Alberta is the third-largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi … overall Canada, which is among countries with highest energy intensity.iv) The paper, next, propose an original indicator …
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sufficient funds should be made available for infrastructure development and renewal in Canada to maintain the competitiveness of …
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Over the last decade and a half, the Smart Growth movement has matured in Canada. Early efforts to raise awareness on … reflection of this emerging interest, a report entitled Smart Growth in Canada: A Progress Report was published in 2005. The … was the first systematic attempt in Canada to assess progress on Smart Growth, but suffered from several weaknesses. Most …
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Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and global environmental governance. Building on a...
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Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has significant implication for energy and climate governance. Building on a Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth model incorporating the mechanism of endogenous technological change and its...
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This paper provides a cross-country review of progress towards green growth in selected emerging market economies that are members or partners of the OECD. It draws on the country studies conducted within the OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia,...
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As outlined, recurring concerns have surfaced since the 1700s that economic growth may prove to be unsustainable. These concerns have been expressed again and have intensified in recent decades but their foundation differs from that of Malthus. The rapid economic growth of China and India have...
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The relationship between growth and pollution is studied through a vintage capital model, where new technologies are more environmentally friendly. We find that once the optimal scrapping age of technologies is reached, an economy may achieve two possible cases of sustainable development, one in...
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