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World Trade Organization, Renewable Energy Subsidies and the Case of Feed-In Tariffs : Time for Reform Toward Sustainable Development?
Farah, Paolo Davide; Cima, Elena - 2016
Renewable energy subsidies are crucial for combatting climate change, and yet the world’s international legal … infrastructure is not designed to accommodate such subsidies. The world needs a renewable energy sector to develop and implement the … against each other: cultivation of renewable energy and prevention of unfair trade practices. The World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130983
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Strategies to Balance Energy Security, Business, Trade and Sustainable Development
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2021
Energy is pivotal for socio-economic and cultural development. Last century witnessed a drastic increase, on one hand on the consumption of energy and, on the other on greenhouse gases emissions. Traditionally, energy security has been linked with the need to guarantee supply and, in turn,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232685
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Pro...
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of … consequences of the global expansion of world trade and of the monetary and commercial translation of all interpersonal …, and in different parts of the world are just some of the most critical examples on how the existing systems are failing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123758
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Pro...
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of … consequences of the global expansion of world trade and of the monetary and commercial translation of all interpersonal …, and in different parts of the world are just some of the most critical examples on how the existing systems are failing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123865
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Integrative Governance : Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises (Foreword)
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2018
seems that Fukuyama's argument concerning the end of history with the ultimate win of liberal democracy requires serious … now even more supported in the dynamics of political discourses, because as it happened between the two World Wars and all … the events that led to the Second World War, liberal democracies are again showing the potential loopholes in their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112915
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The Economic and Institutional Foundations of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change : The Political Economy of Roadmaps to a Sustainable Electricity Future
Cooper, Mark - 2016
Three recent “roadmap” analyses outline routes to a low-carbon economy that model the decarbonization of the electricity sector and the pervasive electrification of the transportation and industrial sectors. Two of these also impose a pollution constraint on electricity resources that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000370
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Liberating Sustainable Development From Its Non-Historical Shackles
Dernbach, John C.; Schang, Scott E. - 2023
In this Article, we argue that sustainable development is historically a much broader and more societally beneficial concept than it is often understood to be, and that it is often limited, particularly in the United States, by the supposition that it is just about the environment, or about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260030
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Environmental challenges and sustainable economic development in the People's Republic of China : the role of renewable energy across provinces
Paramati, Sudharshan Reddy; Shi, Yukun; Zhao, Yang - 2019
In recent times, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has faced significant challenges in terms of managing its environment and moving forward with the concept of sustainable economic development. The environmental challenges concern the increasing consumption of fossil fuel energy, which has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132093
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International tourism, exchange rate, and renewable energy : do they boost or burden efforts towards a low carbon economy in selected African countries?
Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; Adusah-Poku, Frank; Kwakwa, Paul Adjei - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
Africa continues to suffer from the effects of climate change in many ways. Records show that the continent's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have seen tremendous upward adjustments over the past decades. While international tourism and renewable energy have been touted as sources of reducing CO2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503022
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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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