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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry

Bonny, Sylvie - 2017

In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...

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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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Food Court

Czarnezki, Jason J. - 2018

This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution, which ultimately contributes to both economic and social costs. The article addresses environmental energy costs in the food supply

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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...

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Policies and measures to mitigate the potential environmental impacts of cross-border infrastructure projects in Asia

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011

While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative to national projects. Moreover, such projects involve a variety of technical, regulatory, institutional, and legal factors, and their obstacles constrain the development of...

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Decoupling economic growth and energy use : an empirical cross-country analysis for 10 manufacturing sectors

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy …

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The output effects of commodity price volatility : evidence from exporting countries

Hachula, Michael; Hoffmann, Sebastian - 2015

Empirical evidence indicates that high oil price volatility has a dampening effect on output in countries that import commodities. Many countries, however, gain important revenues from commodity exports. This paper investigates the output effects of commodity price volatility in commodity...

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The influence of economic growth, population, and fossil fuel scarcity on energy investments

De Cian, Enrica; Sferra, Fabio; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013

of investments under different assumptions regarding economic and population growth as well as availability of fossil … fuel resources, in the absence of a climate policy. Our analysis indicates that economic growth and the speed of income …

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Dynamics and determinants of energy intensity in the service sector : a cross-country analysis, 1980–2005

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Pfeiffer, Birte - 2013

We present a detailed analysis of energy intensity developments across 23 service sectors in 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2005. We find that the shift towards a service economy has contributed to lower overall energy intensity levels in the OECD, but this contribution would have been...

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Are deep and comprehensive regional trade agreements helping to reduce air pollution?

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Oueslati, Walid - 2016

This paper investigates whether membership in Regional Trade agreements (RTAs) with environmental provisions (EPs) affect relative and absolute levels of environmental quality and whether the inclusion of most comprehensive EPs is associated to higher environmental quality. In order to do so,...

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