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Economic Modeling and the False Tradeoff between Environmental Protection and Economic Growth
Decanio, Stephen J. - 2008
One important element of the current policy debate on what measures should be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is the controversy over the costs of reducing those emissions. "Top-down" macroeconomic and general equilibrium models give much higher estimates of the costs than "bottom-up"...
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Community-Based Incentives for Environmental Protection : The Case of Green Electricity
Jacobsen, Grant; J. Kotchen, Matthew; Clendennig, Greg - 2023
municipal photovoltaic installations in proportion to the number of households that voluntarily purchase green electricity. We … find that the program causes a 22-percent increase in the number of households purchasing green electricity in CCEC … kilowatt-hour of annual green-electricity demand, and $113 per ton of annual carbon-dioxide emission reductions …
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Voluntary corporate climate initiatives and regulatory loom : batten down the hatches
Ilić, Dragan; Mollet, Janick Christian - 2015
The rationale of voluntary corporate initiatives is often explained with preparedness for future regulation. We test this hypothesis for the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the Climate Leaders (CL), two popular voluntary US environmental programs to curb carbon emission that were operating...
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Mitigation and Heterogeneity in Management Practices on New Zealand Dairy Farms
Anastasiadis, Simon - 2013
Pastoral farming can result in adverse environmental effects such as nitrogen leaching and greenhouse gas emissions. However, the cost of mitigation and hence the socially appropriate level of tolerance for environmental effects is still unclear. Research to date within New Zealand has either...
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Voluntary Corporate Climate Initiatives and Regulatory Loom : Batten Down the Hatches
Ilic, Dragan - 2016
The rationale of voluntary corporate initiatives is often explained with anticipation of future regulation. We test this hypothesis for the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the Climate Leaders (CL), two popular voluntary US environmental programs to curb carbon emission that were operating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981327
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Ilmastopolitiikan talousvaikutusten ennakointi
Rantala, Olavi (contributor) - 2008
This paper describes the main features of a model developed for fore-casting economic developments, energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in the EU area and Finland as well as for simulating the economic impacts of EU climate policy. Climate policy analysis necessitates a model of the whole...
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Energy evaluation and economic impact analysis of green roofs applied to a pilot region in Aegean Coast of Turkey
Çelik, Serdar; Retzlaff, William; Morgan, Susan; … - 2010
This paper examines the energy savings, environmental benefits, and economic impact of green roof systems applied to a "micro" region in Western Turkey. This subdivision (Artur) in Karaağaç, Izmir, consists of 1729 residential units, mostly used as summer homes. The units are in 45m2, 60m2,...
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Feed-in tariffs for promoting solar PV: progressing from dynamic to allocative efficiency
Bell, William; Foster, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
, focusing on the case of ‘solar rich’ Australia. Solar PV is approaching price parity at the retail level where the electricity … the market failures that exist in the residential solar PV electricity market, which include exacerbating inequity, poorly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260134
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Do Greens Drive Hummers or Hybrids? Environmental Ideology as a Determinant of Consumer Choice and the Aggregate Ecological Footprint
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
The environmental movement has been an effective interest group lobbying governments to enact policies that enhance public goods (the environment) at the expense of tightly organized for profit interests. Collectively, environmentalists have been able to overcome free-rider problems to achieve...
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Analysis of institutional adaptability to redress electricity infrastructure vulnerability due to climate change
Foster, John; Bell, William Paul; Wild, Phillip; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
adaptability to redress electricity infrastructure vulnerability due to climate change’. The objectives of the project are to … examine the adaptive capacity of existing institutional arrangements in the National Electricity Market (NEM) to existing and … electricity prices are investment in transmission and distribution and fossil fuel prices. Peak demand drives the investment in …
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