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Low-carbon competitiveness in Asia
Srivastav, Sugandha; Fankhauser, Samuel; Kazaglis, Alex - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-18
competitiveness across key sectors. We look at three success factors for low-carbon competitiveness at the sector level: the ability …
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Competitiveness and Leakage Concerns and Border Carbon Adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated … discusses broad policy options to address competitiveness and leakage concerns, and compares which anti-leakage policy, border …
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Trading Off Global Fuel Supply, CO2 Emissions and Sustainable Development
Wagner, Liam - 2016
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Paris 2015) reached an international agreement to keep the rise in global average temperature ‘well below 2°C' and to ‘aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C'. These reductions will have to be made in the face of rising global energy demand....
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Green growth opportunities for Asia
Fankhauser, Sam; Kazaglis, Alex; Srivastav, Sugandha - 2017
This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...
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An Analysis on the Short-Term Sectoral Competitiveness Impact of Carbon Tax in China
Wang, Xin - 2013
sector. We then divided the sectoral trade impact into domestic competitiveness with regards to foreign imported products and … international competitiveness external to the Chinese domestic market. We found that a high tax level (100 yuan/t CO2) may … few competitiveness problems for all industries and may therefore be considered as an appropriate starting point …
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Who should bear the cost of China's carbon emissions embodied in goods for exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the Chinese people out of poverty, but also has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution...
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Policies and practices of low carbon city development in China
Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the...
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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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Who Should Bear the Cost of China’s Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013
China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the Chinese people out of poverty, but also has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092142
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Towards net zero emissions in Denmark
Barker, Andrew - 2022
Denmark has been a frontrunner in policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and now plans to cut emissions by 70% by 2030 from 1990 levels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Such ambition induces halving emissions from 2019 levels and making the same emission abatement effort in ten...
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