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Le protocole de Kyoto et les mécanismes de développement propre (MDP) : quels impacts pour les pays en développement à l'horizon 2020--2050 ?
Hristova, Iva - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
The present thesis focuses on the definition of potential Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (or other successor … is completed by an overview of the current CDM characteristics, not only through a comparison with other financial flows … the current impacts on host countries’ economic growth. At last, the thesis presents an overview of the current CDM …
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Climate Change, Economic Development, and Global Equity
Rao, J. Mohan - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 1
Climate change involves fundamental international asymmetries in terms of its sources and impacts. The World Development Report 2010 presents an optimistic picture of the possibilities for tackling global warming, its optimism rather at odds with the gloomy prospects that may well be in store...
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Should we sustain? : and if so, sustain what? ; consumption or the quality of life?
Llavador, Humberto G.; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012
Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...
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The Nordhaus racket : how to use capitalization to minimize the cost of climate change and win a nobel for "sustainable growth"
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018
The LA Times called the bluff: William D. Nordhaus won the Nobel prize in economics for a climate model that minimized the cost of rising global temperatures and undermined the need for urgent action. Unfortunately, though, the article missed the nugget in the racket.
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Green growth opportunities for Asia
Fankhauser, Sam; Kazaglis, Alex; Srivastav, Sugandha - 2017
This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...
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Low-carbon competitiveness in Asia
Srivastav, Sugandha; Fankhauser, Samuel; Kazaglis, Alex - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-18
Environmental degradation and the risks from climate change have strengthened the need for cleaner forms of economic growth. Using patent, trade and output data, we measure the current size of Asia’s low-carbon economy and assess its competitiveness across key sectors. We look at three success...
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Climate change, ethics and sustainability : an innovative approach
Sánchez García, José Luis; Díez Sanz, Juan María - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 3 (2018) 2, pp. 70-75
Our goal in this article is the analysis of the state of affairs, regarding the phenomenon of climate change and its impact in different areas. We synthesize the various approaches available in the scientific debate on this subject, mainly the one that affirms the existence of global warming and...
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Do global financial markets capitalise sustainability? : evidence of a quick reversal
Moliterni, Fabio - 2018
This study investigates the growing importance of sustainability in financial markets by estimating the extent of capitalisation of companies' commitment to sustainability on their market value. The spreading concern for social and environmental issues, and especially for the material risks of...
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The new urban paradigm
Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018
This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...
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The role of fintech in unlocking green finance : policy insights for developing countries
Nassiry, Darius - 2018
The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementation of the Paris Agreement will require significant new investment. New financial technologies ("fintech") offer the potential to unlock green finance technologies, such as blockchain, the Internet of Things and big data,...
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