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Natural Capital Considerations for an Extension of the U.S. Marine Economy Satellite Account

Wielgus, Jeffrey; Grasso, Mônica; Colgan, Charles S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In an effort to measure and track marine-dependent economic activities, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed two statistical tools: The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) and the Marine Economy Satellite Account (MESA). In both efforts, the...

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Emerging U.S. Climate Policy : Where We are and How We Got Here

Clemm, Geoffrey; Smith, Mark Griffin - 2009

After eight years of non-engagement, the new administration and the U.S. Congress, led by a majority in the President’s party, are rapidly developing climate policy legislation. This paper summarizes past efforts to establish a national climate policy in the United States as well as the major...

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Climate Regulation of the Electricity Industry : A Comparative View from Australia, Great Britain, South Korea, and the United States

Davies, Lincoln L. - 2017

Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law … from the electricity sector. It does so through detailed, comparative accounts of climate regulation of electricity in four … analysis section identifies key lessons learned to date about climate regulation of electricity globally …

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The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation

Tai, Steph - 2014

This article provides one of the first critical looks at the interface between the values of the sustainable food movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation "challenges to CAFOs and challenges to the use of...

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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism

Wang, Shunli; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009

Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...

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On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes

Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...

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