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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This is largely supported by observational field...
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As reporting GHG emissions becomes mandatory in the financial sector, the methods by which emissions are calculated will grow in importance for their impact on the resulting metric. Progress is underway in both the public and private financial sectors to embed emissions accounting standards, but...
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The argument over fiscal decentralization and carbon dioxide emission (CO2) reduction has received much attention …. However, evidence to back this claim is limited. Economic theory predicts that fiscal decentralization affects environmental … quality, but the specifics of this relationship are still up for debate. Some scholars noted that fiscal decentralization …
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Despite the increased attention and capital incentives around corporate sustainability, the development of sustainability reporting standards and monitoring systems has been progressing at a slow pace. As a result, companies have misaligned incentives to deliberately or selectively communicate...
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Temperature records compiled by the International Panel on Climate Change are biased by non-climatic factors that are largely socioeconomic in origin. The result is that as much as 50 percent of the land-surface warming that has been detected in recent decades may not be the product of global...
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Many argue that digital innovation and innovation in services will be driven by Information and Knowledge Management technologies. This paper investigates a case study on sustainability innovation and more specifically, carbon footprint innovation through Environmental Information Management in...
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Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. Given the paramount importance of cities, China is practicing low … characteristics of China's LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China's LCC development …
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China. Our results document some significant climate-economic relationships, with the increase of 1℃-temperature, 100mm …-developed regions. Using integrated assessment models, we project that the model-average climate damage of China may account for up to 4 …
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set of 30 Chinese provincial economies from for the period 1998 to 2012, we evaluate the environmental efficiency of China …
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findings, we recommend that China should support the expansion of high-speed rail in order to reduce carbon emissions in a …
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