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Mitigation of methane emissions : a rapid and cost-effective response to climate change
Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - 2009
Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon according to the latest IPCC report. Thus, CH4...
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Economic prospects of ocean iron fertilization in an international carbon market
Rickels, Wilfried; Rehdanz, Katrin; Oschlies, Andreas - 2009
To stay within the 2°C temperature increase target for climate change calls for ambitious emission reduction targets already for the 2012-2020 compliance period. Cost-efficiency is a crucial criterion for the enforcement of such ambitious targets, requiring analyses of all possible abatement...
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Voluntary Exposure Benefits and the Costs of Climate Change
Leard, Benjamin - 2017
We identify behavioral responses, defined as “voluntary exposure benefits,” that have the potential to offset measured costs of climate change. We quantify these responses for the transportation sector. We find warmer temperatures and reduced snowfall are associated with an increase in fatal...
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Disposal of Petroleum Installations - Major Policy Issues
Osmundsen, Petter; Tveteras, Ragnar - 2021
Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
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Disposal of petroleum installations : major policy issues
Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000
Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781556
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Deutsche Telekom and Pacific Bell v. Linkline : Does Competition Law Have a Place in Regulated Industries?
Holterman, Martin - 2014
– in fostering or hampering innovation in regulated industries, specifically the telecommunications industry. I combine an … innovation, as well as a discussion of the intentions of lawmakers when the current European regulatory system was last … decisions for innovation, the 2002 EU Telecommunications package appears to be highly problematic, in that it seems to give …
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The TRIPS Agreement and Technological Innovation
DiVita, Giuseppe - 2014
countries. We find that the TRIPs convention has prompted, at the same time, innovation in developing countries and a rise in …
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Standards and Innovation : US Public/Private Partnerships to Support Technology-Based Economic Growth
Scott, Troy J. - 2015
This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...
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Accounting for CO2 emissions from international shipping : burden sharing under different UNFCCC allocation options and regime scenarios
Heitmann, Nadine; Khalilian, Setareh - 2010
CO2 emissions from international shipping, which are currently unregulated, are predicted to rise from 2.7% today to 18% in 2050. International bunker fuel emissions have been excluded from any commitment in the Kyoto Protocol; the UNFCCC conference in Copenhagen also failed to bring about clear...
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Carbon Footprint for energy efficiency in public buildings
Fraczek, Karina; Śleszyński, Jerzy - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 15 (2015) 4, pp. 333-347
The paper presents an empirical analysis of Carbon Footprint indicator applied to the public building of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Warsaw. Analysis takes into account direct and indirect CO2 emissions related to the functioning of the Faculty. Analysis concentrates on the...
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