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The value of added sulfur dioxide in French organic wine

Grogan, lly A. - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 3 (2015), pp. 1-25

The addition of sulfur dioxide is a longstanding and common practice in the winemaking industry. Sulfur dioxide preserves wine, preventing oxidation and browning. However, in the US, wine labeled as organic cannot contain added sulfur dioxide. A petition put forth to the National Organic...

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Economic growth and emissions: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for ECOWAS countries

Omotor, Douglason Godwin - In: West African Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration 17 (2017) 2, pp. 25-56

The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...

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Moving towards a "COAL-PEC"?

Haftendorn, Clemens; von Hirschhausen, Christian; Holz, … - In: Weekly Report 4 (2008) 10, pp. 62-67

Coal has for many years been considered as a resource of the past and as a result its importance has been … underestimated. Yet coal still is the main pillar for generating electricity in most countries: A quarter of the worldwide primary … energy consumption is provided by coal. While the world's largest coal producers, China, the USA and India, are at the same …

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Auf dem Weg zu einer "COAL-PEC"?

Haftendorn, Clemens; von Hirschhausen, Christian; Holz, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 40, pp. 603-608

- in Richtung eines Anbieterkartells entwickeln, einer "COAL-PEC". Tatsächlich war in den vergangenen Jahren eine starke …

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Indien: Entwicklung auf Kosten des Klimas

Haftendorn, Clemens; Freund, Karen; von Hirschhausen, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 51/52, pp. 818-824

Der Pro-Kopf-Stromverbrauch in Indien, der heute noch zwölf Mal niedriger ist als in Deutschland, soll sich laut Prognosen der Internationalen Energie- Agentur bis 2030 verdreifachen. Die dringend erforderliche Elektrifizierung des Landes wird zum überwiegenden Teil mit Stromerzeugung aus...

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Climate protection and a new operator: The Eastern German lignite industry is changing

Oei, Pao-Yu; Brauers, Hanna; Kemfert, Claudia; von … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 6/7, pp. 63-73

Regionalentwicklung). Individual federal states also have key roles to play in the creation of a dependable roadmap for a coal phase …

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Klimaschutz und Betreiberwechsel: Die ostdeutsche Braunkohlewirtschaft im Wandel

Oei, Pao-Yu; Brauers, Hanna; Kemfert, Claudia; von … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 6/7, pp. 103-113

would not be depleted of coal if the climate protection targets for 2030 were complied with. This makes planning for new …

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Specifics of the Energy Markets

Rotaru, Delia Vasilica - In: CES Working Papers 6 (2014) 3, pp. 76-85

In this paper we have analyzed the specific characteristics of the energy markets in general and the products transacted, in particular. Due to its unique features, electricity, one of the most important products for the economic development of a country, has brought challenges to the...

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Successful climate protection via rapid coal phaseout in Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia

Göke, Leonard; Kittel, Martin; Kemfert, Claudia; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 8 (2018) 33, pp. 301-311

Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions … Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as 'Coal Commission') among others are currently debating alternative … pathways toward a coal phaseout to achieve the national climate targets. The Coal Commission has been tasked with submitting …

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Erfolgreicher Klimaschutz durch zügigen Kohleausstieg in Deutschland und Nordrhein-Westfalen

Göke, Leonard; Kittel, Martin; Kemfert, Claudia; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 85 (2018) 33, pp. 701-711

Die Stromerzeugung aus Braun- und Steinkohle war im Jahr 2016 für mehr als ein Viertel der deutschen Treibhausgas- Emissionen verantwortlich. Unter den Bundesländern ist Nordrhein-Westfalen der mit Abstand größte CO2-Emittent. Um die nationalen Klimaziele zu erreichen, werden daher...

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