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Sustaining the Arctic in Order to Sustain the Global Climate System
Bodansky, Daniel; Pomerance, Rafe - 2022
means of cooling the earth quickly enough to save Arctic ice and permafrost. Scientific research is essential to better … understand its feasibility, effectiveness, and safety. However, research is not enough; we need to be ready to respond right away … if Arctic or global temperatures need to be lowered quickly. This means we need significant technology research and …
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Infrastructure An Indicator to the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture
Safta, Adela Sorinela - 2022
research in which the climatic phenomenon affects more and more gentlemen, we notice that in the area of agri-food trade there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080033
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239637
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The COSA Measuring Sustainability Report : Coffee and Cocoa in 12 Countries
Giovannucci, Daniele - 2021
In the past two decades, markets grew to accommodate no less than 435 “eco-labels” or standards such as Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and UTZ Certified, that claim some aspect of sustainability. They constitute multi-billion dollar markets and the world’s leading food and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322386
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HANPP calculated from land cover as indicator of ecological sustainability
Garí, Josep A. - 2018
This is the inaugural paper that introduced a new indicator of sustainability, which the author coins HANPP: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. This indicator estimates the extent of human use of ecological and land resources, contributing to the nascent ecological-footprint movement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933745
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Environmental, Social and Governance Investment Standardization : Moving Towards Sustainable Economy
Plastun, Alex; Makarenko, Inna; Yelnikova, Yulia; … - 2019
This paper is devoted to the investigation of environmental, social and governance investment (investment with ESG criterion) normative base in the context of standardization process in sustainable economy financing. Complexity of such standardization and the lack of commonly accepted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014104995
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Globalization and Biodiversity
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2014
Reduction of the earth's biodiversity as a result of human activities is a matter of great concern to prominent scientists. What are the economic aspects of this loss? In economic terms, what is biodiversity and why might it matter? And is the loss of biodiversity in any way connected with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014032314
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Large-scale asset purchases : impact on commodity prices and international spillover effects
Kozicki, Sharon; Santor, Eric; Suchanek, Lena - 2015
Prices of commodities, including metals, energy and agricultural products, rose markedly over the 2009 - 2010 period. Some observers have attributed a significant part of this increase in commodity prices to the U.S. Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) programs. Using event-study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283220
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Location decision of foreign direct investment : the role of environmental policy and natural resources
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2011
This paper examines whether lax environmental policy and abundant natural resources both attract foreign direct investment (FDI). At first, their potential effects are discussed using arguments from the pollution haven hypothesis and the natural resource curse. Using cross-country Ordinary Least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775230
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Commodity Index Traders and the Boom/Bust Cycle in Commodities Prices
Frenk, David - 2011
Since 2005, the public has lived with high and volatile prices for basic energy and agricultural commodities. The public focus on this unprecedented commodity price volatility has been intense, because a large proportion of the cost of living borne by individuals and families in the U.S. (and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119495