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Mitigation of methane emissions : a rapid and cost-effective response to climate change
Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - 2009
Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon according to the latest IPCC report. Thus, CH4...
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Economic prospects of ocean iron fertilization in an international carbon market
Rickels, Wilfried; Rehdanz, Katrin; Oschlies, Andreas - 2009
To stay within the 2°C temperature increase target for climate change calls for ambitious emission reduction targets already for the 2012-2020 compliance period. Cost-efficiency is a crucial criterion for the enforcement of such ambitious targets, requiring analyses of all possible abatement...
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Voluntary Exposure Benefits and the Costs of Climate Change
Leard, Benjamin - 2017
We identify behavioral responses, defined as “voluntary exposure benefits,” that have the potential to offset measured costs of climate change. We quantify these responses for the transportation sector. We find warmer temperatures and reduced snowfall are associated with an increase in fatal...
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Environmental innovation and firm profitability : an analysis with respect to firm size
Axenbeck, Janna - 2019
between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055635
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Environmental Innovation and Firm Profitability – An Analysis with Respect to Firm Size
Axenbeck, Janna - 2019
between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863682
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Disposal of Petroleum Installations - Major Policy Issues
Osmundsen, Petter; Tveteras, Ragnar - 2021
Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
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Disposal of petroleum installations : major policy issues
Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000
Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781556
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Competition, R&D, and the Cost of Innovation
Askenazy, Philippe - 2010
competition on R&D according to the cost of the innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the … shape is flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly …. Intuitively, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …
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Deutsche Telekom and Pacific Bell v. Linkline : Does Competition Law Have a Place in Regulated Industries?
Holterman, Martin - 2014
– in fostering or hampering innovation in regulated industries, specifically the telecommunications industry. I combine an … innovation, as well as a discussion of the intentions of lawmakers when the current European regulatory system was last … decisions for innovation, the 2002 EU Telecommunications package appears to be highly problematic, in that it seems to give …
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The TRIPS Agreement and Technological Innovation
DiVita, Giuseppe - 2014
countries. We find that the TRIPs convention has prompted, at the same time, innovation in developing countries and a rise in …
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