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The U.S. economy is growing more slowly than it can and should be growing because it does not invest enough in infrastructure, science, and education. There is an important procedural obstacle to funding public investments — a process of scoring the economic effect of legislation. This process...
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The paper deals with the efficiency and effectiveness of renewable energy support in Europe in order to achieve the target of 20% of final consumption in 2020. The reconciliation of subsidisation of carbon free energy sources and competition in the energy sector creates serious problems to the...
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Africa is still struggling to mitigate its electricity insecurity issues. This situation renders foreign direct investment in the renewable electricity industry (FDIREI) and renewable electricity production (REP) to become simultaneously important to Africa. Using a novel dataset of FDIREI, this...
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of carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gases. Moreover, financial authorities at the global and European levels have … relationships between the CO2 emissions, economic growth, and the renewable energy of each European country from 1995 to 2020 … between GDP, renewable energy consumption, and CO2 emissions is evident. Indeed, economic growth may increase environmental …
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This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...
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The growing attention to global warming due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the process of fossil fuel …-based energy production is expressed in the Kyoto Protocol, which prescribes, on average, a 7 percent reduction in GHG emissions … sources. The efficacy of decentralized economic incentives for CO2 emission reduction, such as carbon taxes on emissions and …
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