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The Fragmented Governance of the Global Energy Economy : A Legal-Institutional Analysis
Leal-Arcas, Rafael; Filis, Andrew - 2013
The objective of this paper is to promote global energy security by evaluating the existing patchwork of institutions and processes linked to the governance of the global energy economy. What we mean by global energy security is the satisfaction of humankind’s energy needs to maintain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155421
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Climate Change Mitigation and Internationalization : The Competitiveness of Multinational Corporations
Chakrabarty, Subrata; Wang, Liang (Lucas) - 2013
study suggests that climate change mitigation can enhance an MNC's competitiveness. We test the hypotheses using … longitudinal panel data on US MNCs from 2001 to 2009. We find that MNCs that implement climate change mitigation are likely to see … positive influence of mitigation on sales effectiveness and product leadership is found to be more strongly positive when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038119
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Political-economic correlates of environmental policy
Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2020
Does globalization lead to environmental degradation? What is the role of democracy for environmental performance and do left-wing governments really care more about the environment? Using a comprehensive measure of environmental performance, we test these three hypotheses for a panel of 134...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285657
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Globalisation and National Environmental Policy : Update and Overview
Wijen, Frank; Zoeteman, Kees; Pieters, Jan H. M.; Van … - 2011
After outlining recent developments and the scope, target audience, and structure of the book, we review the literature on globalisation and environmental policy, especially the impact of globalisation on the environment and changes in environmental governance in relation to increasingly global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175742
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A Structural Decomposition of Global Raw Material Consumption
Pothen, Frank - 2015
Between 1995 and 2008, the global extraction of biomass, fossil fuels, and minerals grew from 48 to 69 billion metric tons. This study investigates how changing consumption and investment patterns affected the aforementioned increase. A series of Structural Decomposition Analyses at a global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135358
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New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods : Learning from the International Environmental Challenge
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2011
The world of public goods has changed in the last quarter century. Many of the changes have their origins in massively increased human impacts on the biosphere, and in particular on important life support systems such as the carbon cycle, and on resources such as biodiversity, which operate as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034955
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Effects of Globalization on International Trade and Its Impacts on Climate Change
Nwafor-Orizu, Mmaobi - 2022
legal instrument for the mitigation of climate change may not be easily achievable, particularly in the short term. it … further provides analysis of the limitations facing the mitigation of climate change and explores the ways the trading system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083007
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Socio-Economic Aspects of Sustainable Development on Global and Local Level
Tuziak, Artur - 2014
The article presents selected issues of the problems connected with the sustainable development within the global and local perspective. It summarizes the economic aspects of the broadly understood growth process and the socio-economic development. It discusses the possibility of reaching the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193508
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Tracing CO2 Emissions in Global Value Chains
Meng, Bo - 2014
This paper integrates two lines of research: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions into a unified conceptual framework. This allows both value-added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039833
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Green and brown? : globalization and the environment
Boyce, James K. - 2004
Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to worldwide convergence toward higher or lower environmental quality, or to environmental polarization in which the 'greening' of the global North is accompanied by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527046