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The mismatch between actions to combat climate change, which are based on voluntary national initiatives of limited effort, and the recognition of the importance of global warming is growing. Climate engineering via solar radiation management has been proposed as a possible complement to...
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Long-term Strategies for Decarbonization, termed long-term low emissions and development strategies (LT-LEDS) by the …
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emissions reduction/avoidance of 75 percent for the period 2020 to 2030, referenced against a projected business … adaptation/resilience and driven by their impact sustainable development rather than by GHG emissions reductions per se. This is …
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needed to support the social optimum. We then analyze the effects of these taxes on urban spatial structure. Emissions are … heights, generating a more-compact city with a lower level of emissions per capita. …
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We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate … and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as the overall stringency of climate policies. We use dynamic panel … mix. We find that higher carbon taxes and prices of permits in ETS reduce carbon emissions. An increase in carbon taxes by …
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(RPS) on electricity price, CO2 emissions, fossil fuel electricity generation, and two kinds of renewable generation. We …
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other climate policies, on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. The paper uses cross-country dynamic … of around 0.9% in CO2 emissions per capita in the short run, and of around 3.7% in the long run. An increase by one index … point of the green R&D expenditure support policy index leads to a significant reduction of around 0.4% in CO2 emissions per …
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This paper studies the impact of national carbon taxes on CO2 emissions. To do so, we run local projections on a cross …-country panel dataset, matching measures of emissions of carbon dioxide with information on the introduction of carbon taxes and … their implied price. Importantly, we consider both measures of territorial emissions - emissions emitted within a country …
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Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990 by 2030 to achieve national climate targets …. Nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by private household consumption. Using Socio … energy use, nutrition, and transport in Germany. Consumption in these three areas alone results in average emissions that …
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