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Energy and environmental issues and policy in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013
China's rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203427
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Trade, climate policy and carbon leakage : theory and empirical evidence
Aichele, Rahel - 2013
This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744093
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Border adjustment mechanisms : elements for economic, legal, and political analysis
Bueb, Julien; Richieri Hanania, Lilian; Le Clézio, Alice - 2016
This paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation. It highlights economic, legal, and political difficulties raised by border carbon adjustments. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447295
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Korea's Green Growth Strategy : Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines
Jones, Randall - 2011
Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005, the highest growth rate in the OECD area. Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a...
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Climate Change Meets Trade in Promoting Green Growth : Potential Conflicts and Synergies
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
actions comparable to that of home country. This discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, the paper argues that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, there should be: 1) a period of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197090
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Climate Change Meets Trade in Promoting Green Growth : Potential Conflicts and Synergies
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
actions comparable to that of home country. Our discussion is mainly on the legality of unilateral EAR under the WTO rules ….S. legislation capping its greenhouse gas emissions, we argue that, on the U.S. side, in designing such trade measures, WTO rules … for a successful WTO defence of the Waxman-Markey type of border adjustment provision, 1) there should be a period of good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200601
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Carbon Matching Commitments
Coleman, James W. - 2022
With the United States’ reentry to the Paris Agreement, there is now consensus among the world's largest carbon emitters that emissions must be reduced. But there is still a radical lack of consensus on what regulations should be chosen to reduce carbon. Worse, there is also a radical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307945
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Electricity Decentralization in the European Union : Towards Zero Carbon and Energy Transition, 2nd edition
Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2023
Electricity Decentralization in the European Union: Towards Zero Carbon and Energy Transition, Second Edition, examines progress in decentralization across the European Union (EU), with each chapter focusing on developments and innovations in a specific country. Sections provide an overview of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347920
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The rise and fall of bioenergy
Hoel, Michael - 2018
, and later a reduction. Optimal taxes and subsidies are derived both for the first-best case and for the case of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819398
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Carbon price and wind power support in Denmark
Gavard, Claire - 2015
This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476202