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A Pathway to Green Growth? Macroeconomic Impacts of Power Grid Infrastructure Investments in Germany
Schreiner, Lena - 2020
As part of the sustainable energy transition in Germany, substantial investments into power grid infrastructure are planned. They are intended to provide flexibility to an electricity system increasingly relying on variable renewable energy sources, and on European interconnection. The...
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Prioritization of Russian Regions for Sustainable Investing Purposes Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Arkhipova, Anastasia - 2014
In the article we propose to use recently developed method, namely the robust shared-input Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), to estimate the attractiveness of regions in the view of Sustainable Investing (SI). We apply DEA method over all regions of Russian Federation to identify a preferred...
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Do Investors Compensate for Unsustainable Consumption Using Sustainable Assets?
Kormanyos, Emily - 2023
To understand retail investor demand for sustainable assets, I estimate carbon footprints for 6,151 investors by linking their administrative consumption data to product-level carbon intensities. I show that compensation motives drive investments in low-emission assets and formally rule out...
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Boosting African cities' resilience to climate change : The role of green spaces
Anderson, Brilé. - 2022
The next few decades will bring an era of rapid urbanisation and unprecedented climate stress in African cities. Green spaces can boost the resilience of cities to heat waves, floods, landslides, and even coastal erosion, in addition, to enhancing sustainability by improving air quality,...
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Direct water requirement patterns in Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica : a structural decomposition analysis
Naspolini, Giovanna Ferrazzo; Libra, Jesse; Cunial, Santiago - 2024
Water is not only vital for human life but also is a critical economic input. Climate change will likely exacerbate conflicts over the multiple uses of water in Latin America. Adopting a south-south perspective approach, this study compares direct water requirement patterns over time among...
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Multilateral Environmental Agreements up to 2050: Are They Sustainable Enough?
Jeßberger, Christoph - 2011
Today, reducing CO2 emissions is a global target which nearly all countries in the worldprioritize. Some countries have ratified up to 30 multilateral environmental agreementsregarding the atmosphere up to 2006. This number has been surging since 1989 after theratification of the Montreal...
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Why is green finance important?
Sachs, Jeffrey; Thye, Woo Wing; Yoshino, Naoyuki; … - 2019
In 2017, global investment in renewables and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further; clearly fossil fuels still dominate energy investment. This could threaten the expansion of green energy needed to provide energy security and meet climate and clean air...
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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth
Costantini, Valeria; Monni, Salvatore - 2006
Over the last few years, environmental issues have entered into policy design, particularly development and growth policies. Natural resources are considered necessary production inputs and environmental quality is considered a welfare determinant. The integration of environmental issues into...
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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific
Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017
Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …
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The impact of trade on environmental quality and sustainable development in Ghana
Kindo, Malik Dawuda; Adams, Aziz Abdulai; Mohammed, Jamal - In: World development sustainability 4 (2024), pp. 1-13
through trade liberalization policies. However, this integration has profoundly affected the environment, particularly in … trade, environmental considerations, and sustainable development within the Ghanaian context. Using the autoregressive … distributed lag (ARDL) error correction estimation technique, we found that trade positively impacts sustainable development in …
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