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Coleman, James W. - 2022

With the United States’ reentry to the Paris Agreement, there is now consensus among the world's largest carbon emitters that emissions must be reduced. But there is still a radical lack of consensus on what regulations should be chosen to reduce carbon. Worse, there is also a radical...

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Prometheus Framework for Public Policy Decisions on Environmental Health Risks

Stavroglou, Stavros K.; Pantelous, Athanasios A.; … - 2023

Wildfires, suspended soil and other particulates, and industrial emissions combine to raise the urgency of air quality as a planetary threat. This paper introduces Prometheus, a proactive decision-making framework for managing environmental and health risks associated with air pollution and...

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Are Natural Hazards Temporally Random?

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

The paper employs statistical hypothesis tests to explore the question of whether natural hazards (hail and tornadoes being considered here) are or are not intertemporally random. The answer to this question, at least for these two hazards, is surprising and has important policy implications:...

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Coherence, efficiency, and independence of the EU environmental policy system : results of complementary statistical and econometric analyses

Zagonari, Fabio - 2015

preferred to the former. In addition, a "GHG reduction" objective was preferred to "a sustainable development" objective (1998 …

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Coherence, Efficiency, and Independence of the EU Environmental Policy System : Results of Complementary Statistical and Econometric Analyses

Zagonari, Fabio - 2015

preferred to the former. In addition, a “GHG reduction” objective was preferred to “a sustainable development” objective (1998 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028878

Have International Pollution Protocols Made a Difference?

Isaksen, Elisabeth Thuestad - 2019

Evaluating the effectiveness of international agreements is inherently difficult due to the problems of self-selection, spillovers, and aggregate-level data. In this paper, I provide new and arguably more credible estimates on the effects of the Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)...

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Structural disparities in carbon dioxide consumption and trade in the world economy

Ederer, Stefan; Weingärtner, Stefan - 2014

Social scientists have long argued that developed countries are more and more responsible for climate change because they externalise pollution to less developed countries. This paper offers a way to quantify climate responsibility by calculating carbon footprints and carbon balances between...

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Approaches to the implementation of the sustainable development goals : some considerations on the theoretical underpinnings of the 2030 Agenda

Josephsen, Lars - 2017

The paper discusses the theoretical underpinning of the concept of sustainable development, especially in relation to … assess trade-offs between interventions. The aim is to go beyond various sustainable development interpretations, by … theory in this context. Implementation routes for sustainable development interpretations based on other theoretical …

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Relationships between ESG disclosure and economic growth : a critical review

Hassani, Bertrand Kian; Bahini, Yacoub - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 11, pp. 1-23

paper highlights the importance of taking this relationship into account in current sustainable policies. The main objective … current policies is not optimal. There is an optimal disclosure threshold depending on the level of sustainable development of …

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Emissions trading with offset markets and free quota allocations

Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Strand, Jon - 2014

We study optimal climate policy for a "policy bloc" of countries facing a market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy "fringe" of countries (such as for the CDM). Policy-bloc firms benefit from free quota allocations whose quantity is updated according to firms' past...

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