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Arkolakis, Costas; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We provide a spatial theory of clean growth to assess the global impact of the rise of renewable energy. We model the details of the combined production and transmission network of electricity ("the grid") that determine the supply and losses of energy in space. The local rate of clean energy...

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Carbon contracts for difference as an instrument for strengthening climate cooperation between industrialized and emerging economies

Lüpke, Heiner von; Marchewitz, Catherine; Neuhoff, Karsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 38, pp. 229-235

Industrialized countries and emerging economies must cooperate in order to decarbonize the emissions-intensive industrial sector and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While Germany and the other G7 countries have committed to supporting emerging economies in their efforts to combat...

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Dynamics of Biofuel Prices on the European Market : Impact of the EU Environmental Policy on the Resources Markets

Declerck, Francis - 2020

This paper aims at explaining the major drivers of bio-diesel market prices by examining agricultural resource prices … and gas-oil prices for automotive fuels in the context of the EU environmental policy. The EU policy has enhanced bio-diesel … production since 2006. Bio-diesel prices are impacted by the EU policy as well as rapeseed and oil prices which have fluctuated a …

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Ethical Risks of Environmental Policies : The Case of Ethanol in North America

Moore, Michal; Jordaan, Sarah M. - 2017

Policy to address the environmental impacts of transportation fuel derived from conventional oil is frequently focused on the promotion of alternatives such as biofuels. While there are some biofuels that can be developed with relatively few impacts, others can result in broader, complex social...

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Ethical Risks of Environmental Policies : The Case of Ethanol in North America

2017

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The Political Economy of Australia's Climate Change and Clean Energy Legislation : Lessons Learned

Spencer, Thomas A. - 2013

In November 2011, Australia adopted a highly innovative, ambitious and comprehensive climate change policy, the Clean Energy Legislative Package (CELP). This outcome was not self-evident.The CELP embeds an innovative carbon pricing mechanism in a comprehensive and highly generous package of...

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Adapting Energy and Environmental Policy for Climate Change

Flatt, Victor Byers - 2012

The United States has long suffered from a schizophrenia about energy policy. The importance of one of the factors in energy policy, the environment, has never been formally defined. Climate change adds another distinct layer to this complexity, as neither energy policies nor environmental...

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Impact of Economic Development on Environmental Degradation

Ali, Wajid - 2018

This study examines the relationship between economic development and environmental degradation for a global panel of 120 countries over the period 1990- 2016. We apply the Fixed Effect Model (FEM) to evaluate the environmental impact of economic development. This study makes an attempt to bring...

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Natural Gas and Climate Change Policies

Tavoni, Massimo - 2015

The development of unconventional gas extraction has led to significant declines in gas prices, recently followed by a large drop of oil prices. This is also the year which is supposed to deliver the long awaited post 2020 climate agreement. This article brings different pieces of research...

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Betting on Climate Policy : Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming

Lucas, Jr., Gary - 2019

Global warming, sea level rise, and extreme weather events have made climate change a top priority for policymakers across the globe. But which policies are best suited to tackle the enormous challenges presented by our changing climate? This Article proposes that policymakers turn to prediction...

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