Showing 1 - 10 of 10,517
This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509563
An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198028
and her struggles to stabilize global climate. Data was obtained from World Bank data base for year 2000 and from 2006 to … chain management to stabilize world's climate. We concluded that stabilizing climate is everyone task. Household, firms, and … government should combine efforts to protect our environment. We recommended to managers of firms to embrace Green Supply Chain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994111
-industrial levels, and to achieve a low-carbon world by 2050. Revisions to international finance investment strategies are expected to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013492097
The way in which climate policy and climate risks are currently accounted for in financial and real investment decisions is inadequate. The paper demonstrates weaknesses in methods presently used and proposes an alternative that aims to bridge the duration gap between climate policy modeling and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403810
Global governance institutions for climate change, such as those established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, have so far failed to make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Following the lead of Elinor Ostrom, this paper offers an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181444
Against a background of regulatory uncertainty, this article contends that voluntary action by the banking industry has potential to facilitate climate change mitigation and the transition to a low-carbon economy. First, it evidences the relationship between the banking industry and climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185897
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208229
Global regulations involving clean energy technologies have evolved in recent decades. Such evolution came as a result of technological disparities between the North and the South. Such regulatory changes came because of the failure of developed nations to assist developing countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235353
A simple integrated assessment framework that gives rules for the optimal carbon price, transition to the carbon-free era and stranded carbon assets is presented, which highlights the ethical, economic, geophysical and political drivers of optimal climate policy. For the ethics we discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908688