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The cold economy
Peters, Toby; Sayin, Leyla - 2022
Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people's livelihoods, productivity, health, food, and nutritional security. While business-as-usual demand projections suggest 19 new cooling appliances will be sold every second by...
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen - 2014
Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of the People's...
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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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Land 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 …. -- Emission Trading ; Competitiveness ; Carbon Leakage ; Emissions Allowance Requirements ; Carbon Tariffs ; Border Carbon …
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Sustainable Development and Market Liberalism's Shotgun Wedding : Emissions Trading Under the Kyoto Protocol
Driesen, David M. - 2014
This article analyzes the international emissions trading regime at the heart of the world's effort to address global warming as a means of exploring broader international governance issues. The trading regime seeks to marry two models of global governance, market liberalism, which embraces...
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Do we still need carbonIntensive capital when transitioning to a green economy?
Jin, Wei; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Zhang, Lin - 2020
This paper presents a two-sector green endogenous growth model to explore a mechanism that explains why carbon-intensive capital is not necessarily shut down during transition to a green economy. Without accumulating clean capital to offset carbon emissions, a tightening of climate regulation...
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The EU decarbonisation roadmap 2050: What way to walk?
Hübler, Michael; Löschel, Andreas - 2013
terms of output, investment, emissions and international competitiveness. We conclude that the successful realization of the …
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Temporality, consumption, and conflict : exploring user-based injustices in European low-carbon transitions
Martiskainen, Mari; Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Hook, Andrew - In: Technology analysis & strategic management 33 (2021) 7, pp. 770-782
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China's Energy Policies and Strategies for Climate Change and Energy Security
Deng, Haifeng; Farah, Paolo Davide - 2021
National energy security, parallel with the ultimate goal of emissions reductions, is of utmost priority for the Chinese government. In order to comply with the requirements set by the Kyoto Protocol, the Chinese government announced, on 25 November 2009, that 2020’s CO2 emissions would be...
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Estimating the effects of Kyoto on bilateraltrade flows using matching econometrics
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2011
Many Kyoto countries fear a loss of competitiveness due to unilateral climate policyefforts; policymakers therefore …
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