In sub-Saharan African countries, exposure to air pollutants, such as particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), in the residential sector is a serious environmental issue, which causes health problems. Identifying the driving factors of such air pollutants is significant to formulate policies to reduce...

The Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a study on the ‘effective' carbon prices that result from emissions and energy reduction policies in Australia and other key economies (the UK, USA, Germany, New Zealand, China, India, Japan and South Korea). The...

The recent literature has derived simple formulas for the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) that are easy to interpret, but that only apply to the global economy. This is an issue since international transfers to sustain the global optimum with the same carbon price for all countries are still lacking...

We examine how company-level greenhouse gas emissions have been related to company financials as well as the expected returns of the companies’ stocks and bonds from 2009 to 2018. Examining the US, developed ex US, and emerging markets, we do not find emission intensity, emission level, or...

Over the coming decade, the power sector is expected to invest ~7.2 trillion USD in power plants and grids globally, much of it into CO2-emitting coal and gas plants. These assets typically have a long lifetime and commit large amounts of (future) CO2 emissions. Here, we analyze the historic...

This paper quantifies and decomposes recent trends in U.S. PM2.5 disparities from the electricity sector using a high-resolution pollution transport model. Between 2000-2018, PM2.5 concentrations from electricity fell by 89% for the average individual, more than double the decline rate in...

Steady improvements in ambient air quality in the US over the past several decades have led to large public health benefits, and the policies that helped drive these improvements are considered landmarks in successful environmental policymaking. However, recent trends in PM2.5 concentrations, a...

We propose changes to carbon emissions accounting standards that will improve reporting efficiency and accelerate progress toward effective climate solutions. The first section summarizes a method to account for emissions as liabilities tied to product or service outputs that pass down a supply...

The aim of this study was to analyze the CO2 emission Gini index and the environmental efficiency for 60 leading world economies, in 2010. We consider the technological heterogeneity dividing the sample into similar groups, and estimating environmental efficiency indicators into metafrontier and...

The great debates whether the transaction from rural to cities brings a better life or in the way around in Asia Countries have captured global attention. This study provides empirical evidences on the urbanization-CO2 emissions nexus for a sample of 34 Asian countries from 1990 to 2016 which...