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Population growth is often viewed as a most oppressive global problem with respect to environmental deterioration, but … the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various … polluting emissions within an optimal control model of the coupled demographic-economic-environmental system. We show that a …
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Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...
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Switzerland has low greenhouse gas emissions per capita as compared to other countries, which reflects the strong reliance on energy sources emitting few greenhouse gas emissions, especially in electricity generation, and little heavy industry. Greenhouse gas emissions have remained almost the...
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Traditional measures of multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth generally do not recognise natural capital as inputs into the production process. Since productivity growth is measured as the residual between output and input growth, it will pick up the growth in unmeasured inputs, which can lead...
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invest than renters and low-income households. On the other hand, social context, such as membership in an environmental non … Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes. The empirical analysis is based on the estimation of binary logit regression … ownership, income, social context and households’ information. Indeed, home owners and high-income households are more likely to …
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social, economic and political changes that favour the demographic transition. One of the main challenges facing the region …
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, trade flows, movements of people, environmental flows and knowledge transfers. For each of these flows, transboundary …
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The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
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Mitigating climate change requires aligning real economy investments with climate objectives. This pilot study measures the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated at EUR 1.5 billion per year on average. To do so,...
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Following the historic 2015 Paris Agreement aiming to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, 165 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, representing 192 countries, have been submitted. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) detail each...
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