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The impact of floods on firms' performance
Coelli, Federica; Manasse, Paolo - 2014
We estimate the short-run impact of a major flood that hit the region of Veneto in 2010 on firms' performance. Using … control group of companies that are not exposed to the flood. The results indicate that the value added growth of affected … firms is 6.9% higher two years after the flood. We further investigate the role of aid transfers in the aftermath of the …
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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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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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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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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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Optimal adaptation and mitigation to climate change in small environmental economies
Chisari, Omar O.; Galiani, Sebastián; Miller, Sebastián - 2013
This paper compares the optimal dynamic choices between policies of mitigation and adaptation for three economies: Brazil, Chile and the United States. The focus is on the optimal role of mitigation and adaptation for “environmentally small economies,” i.e., economies that are witnessing an...
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How volatile is ENSO for global greenhouse gas emissions and the global economy?
Lan Fen Chu; McAleer, Michael; Chen, Chi-chung - 2013
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The potential contribution of the shipping sector to an efficient reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions
Heitmann, Nadine; Peterson, Sonja - 2012
In this paper, we analyze how much the shipping sector could contribute to global CO2 emission reductions from an efficiency point of view. To do this, a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for the shipping sector is generated that can be combined with a MACC for conventional CO2 abatement in...
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Breaking the impasse in international climate negotiations : a new direction for currently flawed negotiations and a roadmap for China to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both the stringency issue, and given that China's pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning China's statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as...
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Breaking the Impasse in International Climate Negotiations : A New Direction for Currently Flawed Negotiations and a Roadmap for China to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both the stringency issue, and given that China's pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning China's statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123268