The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...

Economic measures are advanced to environmental problems in EU nations. The economic approach imposes a constant economic load on activities negatively affecting the environment, and it is also a technique for giving a constant profit for activities conserving the environment. The whole society...

The paper does a qualitative assessment of the current European Union policies for dealing with climate change. In the EU mitigation policies are derived from the international agreementsforreducing and limiting greenhouse gases emissions. Mitigation policies have a strict compliance regime...

The Paris Agreement aims at limiting the global average temperature increase to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels. A key component of the agreement are "nationally determined contributions" (NDC). For this, non-state actors such as civil society groups, economic actors, and subnational...

Buildings in hot and humid climates spend more than 60% of the total energy cost for Air Conditioning and Mechanical Ventilation Systems (ACMV) to maintain the required thermal comfort for occupants. The required air conditioning load drastically increases with the fresh air demand of the...