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Most economic models struggle to incorporate biophysical relationships between materials, energy and emissions, in …
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renewable fuel standard. Thus, if emissions from biofuels are negligible, the standard will have beneficial climate effects. The … standard also reduces total fuel (i.e., oil plus biofuels) consumption initially. Hence, even if emissions from biofuels are … biofuels that are almost as emissions-intensive as oil, a renewable fuel standard has beneficial climate effects. …
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- accelerating cost reductions in the clean backstop technologies, taxing emissions, improving energy efficiency, and a clean fuel …Efforts to limit cumulative emissions over the next century may be partially thwarted by the responses of fossil fuel … they predict such strong supplier responses that climate policies may have no effect on cumulative emissions and may even …
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options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal …
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This paper discusses the channels of impact of an extractives activity on an economy by presenting a brief description supported by graphics of the different routes through which the direct economic and social impacts of these activities might be enhanced. These routes include those that often...
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Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...
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Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...
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experiment, to see if linking them to a vehicle’s CO2 emissions rate has helped shift new car sales towards cleaner, lower … of CO2 per kilometer reduces the average CO2 emissions rate from new cars by only 0.46 gram per kilometer, bringing it to …
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This paper examines the energy savings, environmental benefits, and economic impact of green roof systems applied to a "micro" region in Western Turkey. This subdivision (Artur) in Karaaægaç, Izmir, consists of 1729 residential units, mostly used as summer homes. The units are in 45m2, 60m2,...
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greenhouse gas emissions in the EU area and Finland as well as for simulating the economic impacts of EU climate policy. Climate … policy analysis necessitates a model of the whole EU area, because CO2 emissions of the EU area emission trading sector … sector. -- Greenhouse gas emissions ; economic impacts of emission reduction …
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