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Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly? : a reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate change
Lebdioui, Amir - 2021
Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
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Internalizing Global Externalities from Biodiversity: Protected Areas and Multilateral Mechanisms of Transfer
Deke, Oliver - 2004
Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260504
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Carbon Accounting by Public and Private Financial Institutions : Can We Be Sure Climate Finance Is Leading to Emissions Reductions?
Spittle, Emily; Dietrich Brauch, Martin - 2021
As reporting GHG emissions becomes mandatory in the financial sector, the methods by which emissions are calculated will grow in importance for their impact on the resulting metric. Progress is underway in both the public and private financial sectors to embed emissions accounting standards, but...
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Towards a typology of "environmentally-adjusted" national sustainability indicators: Key concepts and policy application
O'Connor, Martin - 2000
This paper first describes two types of adjustments to National Accounting Systems, which take the environment into account: the first type centres on accounting conventions, through a change in the system boundary, in order to include specified categories of environmental assets (called...
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An Inverse Global Environmental Kuznets Curve
Jha, Raghbendra; Murthy, K. V. Bhanu - 2014
This paper articulates the necessity of emphasizing the absolute level of environmental degradation in different countries as a guide to understanding the links between such degradation and economic development. We argue the case for developing a composite environmental degradation index (EDI)...
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From Fossil Fuels to Renewables : The Role of Electricity Storage
Lazkano, Itziar - 2016
We analyze the role of electricity storage for technological innovations in electricity generation. We propose a directed technological change model of the electricity sector, where innovative firms develop better electricity storage solutions, which affect not only the relative competitiveness...
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
gain, can have adverse consequences for economic, social, and environmental sustainability in the long run. …
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Finance and Policies : How Financial Actors and Policy Makers Can Engage in the Green Economy To Respond to Climate Change?
Rueche, Nathan - 2021
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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A Global Migration Framework Under Water : How Can the International Community Protect Climate Refugees?
Sussman, Caitlan M. - 2023
Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...
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Carbonwashing : A New Type of Carbon Data-Related ESG Greenwashing
In, Soh Young; Schumacher, Kim - 2021
Despite the increased attention and capital incentives around corporate sustainability, the development of … sustainability reporting standards and monitoring systems has been progressing at a slow pace. As a result, companies have misaligned … performance data supply chain is relatively more advanced than that of the entire sustainability data landscape. Nonetheless, the …
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