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Climate change, carbon prices and insurance systems

Phelan, Liam; Henderson-Sellers, Ann; Taplin, Ros - 2010

Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the...

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Understanding knowledge management and organizational adaptation and the influencing effects of trust and industrial cluster.

Niu, Kuei-Hsien - 2008

organizational adaptation, while the independent variables were knowledge management, trust and industrial cluster. Data were … does have significant influence on organizational adaptation and both industrial cluster and trust impact on organizational …

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Adaptation, Internalization and Environmental Damage

Abrego, Lisandro; Whalley, John - 2002

Existing literature ignores adaptation responses to external effects which, in turn, affect the design of appropriate …. Results show that not taking adaptation responses to environmental damage into account can seriously mislead analyzes of the … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …

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Implementing Vanilla ERP Systems: Factors to Consider in Strategy, Business Alignment, and Customization

Yick, Janice - 2011

strategic and cost implications, organizational adaptation to ERP functionality, deploying strategies to minimize customizations …

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Optimal Test for Parameter Instability When the Unstable Process and the Error Distribution are Unknown

Lee, Dong Jin - 2008

This paper proposes asymptotically optimal tests for unstable parameter process under the feasible circumstance that the researcher has little information about the unstable parameter process and the error distribution, and suggests conditions under which the knowledge of those processes does...

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Special Issue On Estimation Of Baselines And Leakage In CarbonMitigation Forestry Projects

Sathaye, Jayant A.; Andrasko, Kenneth - 2009

There is a growing acceptance that the environmentalbenefits of forests extend beyond traditional ecological benefits andinclude the mitigation of climate change. Interest in forestry mitigationactivities has led to the inclusion of forestry practices at the projectlevel in international...

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United States -- Mexican joint ventures: A case history approach

Moore, N.L.; Chidester, R.J.; Hughes, K.R.; Fowler, R.A. - 2008

Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a Mexican business that a US company can hold, joint ventures are more attractive now than they had been in the past. This study provides preliminary information for US renewable...

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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil

Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008

We evaluate the conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for managing the rapidly increasing electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved energy using 16 W CFLs is 4 and 6 times less than the long...

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Privatization and the globalization of energy markets

2009

This report reviews recent global efforts to privatize energy resources and outlines the opportunities and challenges privatization has presented to U.S. and foreign multinational energy companies. The group of energy companies studied in this report includes the major U.S. petroleum companies...

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Putting 'international' back in IPEC.

Veil, J. A. - 2008

During the previous six annual sessions of the International Petroleum Environmental Conference (IPEC), little attention has been given to international issues. Although the US is clearly a leader in oil field research and regulatory development information is available on interesting projects...

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