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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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Trade and SDG 13 : action on climate change
Prag, Andrew - 2017
or otherwise hindering climate change objectives. While concluding that the multilateral agreements of the World Trade …
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Green agrowth as a third option : removing the GDP-growth constraint on human progress
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2015
The debate on growth versus the environment is usually summarized as optimists believing in limitless growth versus pessimists seeing environmental and resource limits to growth. This opposition defines the main strategies: namely, striving for green growth versus some anti-growth approach. In...
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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...
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Long-term low emissions development strategies : cross-country experience
Aguilar Jaber, Aimée; Anderson, Brilé; Nachtigall, Daniel - 2020
The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
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Sustainable investing in times of crisis : evidence from bond holdings and the COVID-19 pandemic
Fatica, Serena; Panzica, Roberto Calogero - 2021
Using data on institutional investors' bond holdings, we investigate the resilience of green bonds to the COVID-19 shock in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that during the COVID outbreak green bonds experience lower sales, on average, while in normal times no significant...
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Climate change and monetary policy in the euro are
2021
This paper analyses the implications of climate change for the conduct of monetary policy in the euro area. It first investigates macroeconomic and financial risks stemming from climate change and from policies aimed at climate mitigation and adaptation, as well as the regulatory and fiscal...
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Public procurement, a tool for achieving the goals of sustainable development
Manta, Otilia; Panait, Mirela; Hysa, Eglantina; Rusu, Elena - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 24 (2022) 61, pp. 861-876
reporting to the World Bank on public procurement issues have been mapped, the opinions of other researchers have been … systematized, as well as relevant studies of international organizations (OECD, European Commission, UNESCO, World Bank …). Statistical data from the World Bank's Global Public Procurement Database (GPPD), systematized by group of countries, were …
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The National Climate Budget and the first Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement : to what degree are they aligned?
Monsod, Toby C. - 2022
This paper explores whether and how well the Philippines' Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and National Climate Budget (NCB), derived from the national climate change expenditure tagging system (CCET), are aligned. The CCET was operationalized in 2015 to "provide line and oversight...
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Sustainable markets and abnormal weather : exploring the impact of climate risks on sustainable investing in Turkey
Yılmaz Arslan, Sena - In: Sustainable finance: challenges, opportunities and …, (pp. 77-89). 2023
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