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Environmental innovation in Germany
Hašc̆ic̆, Ivan - 2012
This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685842
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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257289
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Covid-19 and climate change : a tale of two global problems
Fuentes, Rolando; Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; … - 2020
In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the Covid19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405778
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Optimal climate policy under exogenous and endogenous technical change : making sense of the different approaches
Coppens, Léo; Dietz, Simon; Venmans, Frank - 2024
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) provide key inputs to decision-makers on economically efficient climate policies, and technical change is one of the key assumptions in any IAM that estimates mitigation costs. We conduct a systematic survey of how technical change is currently represented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515010
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Are EU regions ready to tackle climate change?
Cappellano, Francesco; Marques Santos, Anabela; Dotti, … - 2023
Technological Innovation and policy priorities to fight climate change. Using regression analysis, we assess the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471951
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Boosting sluggish climate policy : endogenous substitution, learning, and energy efficiency improvements
Bretschger, Lucas; Leuthard, Matthias; Miftakhova, Alena - 2024 - This version: March 12, 2024
There is widespread concern that climate policy is moving too slowly and that decarbonization of economic development is coming too late for effective climate protection. We analyze three different effects that emerge endogenously during decarbonization and amplify current policies: growing...
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Climate Change in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan : Trends and Adaptation Policies Conducive to Innovation
Khakimov, Parviz - 2022
Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are among the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change with weak adaptive capacities. This analysis summarises adaptation technologies for agricultural, water, transport and health sectors, as well as disaster risks management technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300835
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Driving low-carbon innovations for climate neutrality
Cervantes, Mario - 2023
that science, technology, innovation, and industrial (STI&I) policies focusing on developing and deploying low …-carbon technologies are crucial to achieving carbon neutrality. It notes however that the current level of innovation is insufficient to … recommendations for an effective innovation policy for net-zero, including its interaction with the broader climate policy package. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278837
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Taking time seriously : implications for optimal climate policy
Grubb, Michael; Lange, Rutger-Jan; Cerkez, Nicolas; … - 2020
Induced innovation and associated issues of path dependence and inertia are of critical importance in the transition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404201
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Innovation in concentrating solar power technologies: A study drawing on patent data
Braun, Frauke G.; Hooper, Elizabeth; Wand, Robert; … - 2010
. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … more activity - a pattern closely resembling the R&D support path. R&D and innovation are concentrated in few high …-tech countries - such as the U.S. or Germany. Large CSP potential is not a sufficient condition for innovation, only developed …
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