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The German Environmental Liability Law (ELL) of 1991 has introduced far-reaching civil liability for environmental damages with the aim to increase firms? efforts to prevent accidents. Previous studies find poor evidence that this goal has actually been achieved. One and a half decades after the...
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Policy has increasingly shifted towards economic incentives and liability attenuation for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, but little is known about the effectiveness of such policies. An example of such legislation is State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs), which were...
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As financial institutions and policymakers worldwide are considering how to integrate sustainability considerations throughout financial systems, a critical question is whether banks can effectively assess and monitor borrowers' environmental credit risk. China's green credit reforms, part of...
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We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
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discarded in the environment can be expected. The article was created from the perspective of the Czech Republic, where the … the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic so as to learn what measures were planned to be taken in order to …
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, punishing and repairing crimes and damages against the environment, whether this is a consequence of both the lack of … possibility of effectively protecting the environment and guaranteeing full enjoyment of the human right to an environment …. healthy environment, and; iii) the lack of long-term or intergenerational public policy strategies and programs that reduce …
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concerning the manner in which the environment and natural resources are to be governed (e.g., public funding, eminent domain …, public trust, access to water, legislative responsibility). But only six declare a right to a quality environment. These are … shows that while four of these states treat their right to a certain quality environment as judicially enforceable, two …
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Famous environmental claims implicating well-known corporations have already been reviewed by several publications, such as "Corporate Crime and Violence" (Russell Mokhiber, 1988). Such publications may not eventually achieve to either stress or even imply to a broader audience the relevance of...
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China, das Reich der Mitte, ist mit schwerwiegenden Umweltproblemen konfrontiert die hohe Kosten verursachen. Mit der zunehmenden Anwendung der Umwelttechnik kann der Herausforderung diese Problemfelder zu beheben sinnvoll begegnet werden. Die Indikatoren Wirtschaftswachstum, notwendiger Schutz...
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