Because of rapid economic expansion, China, the USA, and India have become the largest energy producers and sources of CO2 emissions in the world. They burned over 45% of global fuels in 2016. Meanwhile, the developing strategies of 24 polluted states to decrease fossil energy consumption...

Abstract : The threat of climate change resulting from carbon dioxide emissions is one of the greatest threats to human survival and natural ecosystems. However, it is still unclear whether hazardous air pollutant regulations will simultaneously reduce air pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas...

The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 developed countries. Besides studying individual long-term trends of single countries using filtering techniques we also test for multiple structural breakpoints in the long-term...