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Industrialized countries and emerging economies must cooperate in order to decarbonize the emissions-intensive industrial sector and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While Germany and the other G7 countries have committed to supporting emerging economies in their efforts to combat...
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energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and … difficulty in further carbon mitigation, inevitable emissions growth due to rising living standards, and coal-dominant energy … carbon a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon …
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regressions, controlling for macroeconomic factors such as economic development, GDP growth, urbanisation, as well as the energy …
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Energy Legislative Package (CELP). This outcome was not self-evident.The CELP embeds an innovative carbon pricing mechanism … transfer payments, and measures to shield emissions and trade-intensive industry and promote investment in renewable energy …, energy efficiency and R&D. In addition, the package contains innovative governance mechanisms to shield it from the vagaries …
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The United States has long suffered from a schizophrenia about energy policy. The importance of one of the factors in … energy policy, the environment, has never been formally defined. Climate change adds another distinct layer to this … complexity, as neither energy policies nor environmental policies were formulated with climate change in mind, and in fact, may …
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The development of unconventional gas extraction has led to significant declines in gas prices, recently followed by a large drop of oil prices. This is also the year which is supposed to deliver the long awaited post 2020 climate agreement. This article brings different pieces of research...
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Global warming, sea level rise, and extreme weather events have made climate change a top priority for policymakers across the globe. But which policies are best suited to tackle the enormous challenges presented by our changing climate? This Article proposes that policymakers turn to prediction...
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translate into incentives to massively deploy CCS in power plant applications as CO2 mitigation scenarios would have it. In fact …, fundamental and interrelated Chinese interests - in energy security, economic growth and development, and macroeconomic stability …’s coal and power markets, and uses this analysis to draw conclusions about the path of CCS implementation in China’s energy …
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China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community's perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...
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China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community’s perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129153