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The strategic management of corporate sustainability tends to be approached from one theoretical perspective simultaneously in academic research and publications in mainstream journals. In corporate practice, however, a sustainability issue has different dimensions that cannot be captured if...
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This working paper, part of my Master of Economics and International Business Management, highlights the impacts of environmental changes on society and the multidisciplinary concept of sustainable development. This work focuses on two major actors, financial actors and policy-makers, and their...
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Enhanced energy efficiency occupies a central role in evaluating the efficacy and cost of climate change policies. Ultimately, total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are the product of population, economic activity per capita, energy use per unit of economic activity, and the carbon intensity of...
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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly facing global environmental issues which require coordinated market and non-market strategic responses. This article analyses the strategic responses by US and European multinational enterprises in the oil industry to the global climate change...
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The Kyoto Protocol marks a break-through in global warming mitigation policies as it sets legally binding emissions targets for major emitting regions. However, realisation of the Protocol depends on the clarification of several issues one of which is the permissible scope of international...
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reductions in California to be offset by emission increases in neighboring regions that supply electricity to the state. The …The regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector within a cap-and-trade system poses significant … efficiency consequences. This research uses simulation modeling for the electricity sector to examine different approaches to …
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Decarbonization and electrification will require a transformed electricity grid. Our long-run model of entry and exit … of generation and storage capacity captures crucial aspects of the electricity industry such as time-varying demand for … electricity, intermittency of renewables, and intertemporal optimization of storage. We derive several theoretical possibilities …
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European Union (EU) institutions and agencies are increasingly raising awareness on the circular economy agenda. They are encouraging marketplace stakeholders to engage in sustainable production and consumption behaviors by reducing, reusing, restoring, refurbishing and recycling resources in...
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The Energy Modeling Forum 28 (EMF28) performed a large-scale model comparison exercise to illustrate different technology pathways for cutting European greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. Focusing on selected countries (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and UK), this paper first analyses...
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Canada's natural capital — its resources, ecosystems and wildlife — are indispensable to the productivity of industry. Despite this, both the public and private sectors have failed to adequately factor in the consequences of production and consumption on the natural environment. There is a...
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