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emissions from all sources. However, this is not compatible with the paradigm of balancing economy with the environment …. Therefore, gradual reductions in emissions as well as depositions were found to be plausible strategy. Furthermore, optimization … using only a single receptor at a time resulted in significantly higher reduction in emissions compared to optimization that …
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development of IAM. Using data on emissions, depositions, source-receptor matrix, costs of emission abatement, models describing … emissions of SO2 are still required from the USA, iii) inter-regional trading with the USA can play a major role in reducing …
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reducing emissions from each point source, it was felt necessary to design a method to generate cost functions for emission … plants within a region. The emissions inventories (GECOT and AIRS for the USA and RDIS for Canada) were used as the major … critical loads, policy makers should examine ways of reducing emissions beyond what is already committed for the year 2005 or …
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There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 … of emissions reductions over time, and includes mechanisms to reduce cost uncertainty. I compare the proposed system with … provide responses to these objections. -- Cap-and-Trade System ; Carbon Dioxide ; Greenhouse Gas Emissions ; Global Climate …
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There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 … of emissions reductions over time, and includes mechanisms to reduce cost uncertainty. I compare the proposed system with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214020
We investigate the impacts of climate change on equity investments in US Electric Utilities by evaluating market reactions around extreme weather events. We hypothesize that investment risk from climate change is already present in the market and that extreme weather events evidence this risk...
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Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity … would be technically feasible and cost-effective is carbon pricing, that is, market-based climate policies that place a … shadow-price on carbon dioxide emissions. We examine alternative designs of three such instruments - carbon taxes, cap …
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the context of the policies' multiple objectives, life-cycle implications, pecuniary externalities, and other unintended … consequences. The policy goals most often cited are to reduce fossil fuel use and to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But the … combination of policies. For example, when this approach is applied to U.S.-produced biofuels, they are found to be 14 to 31 times …
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China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in driving climate change, accounting for more greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions … globally than any other activity. This article provides an introduction to different methods of regulating climate emissions … provides a primer on the nation's electricity sector, its different policy tools for regulating GHG emissions from the sector …
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