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The Implementation of the Korean Green Growth Strategy in Urban Areas

Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Grazi, Fabio; Joo, Jongwan; … - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2011

This report on the Korean Strategy for Green Growth and its implementation in urban areas assesses the contributions of sub-national governments to Korea's National Strategy for Green Growth and identifies the main challenges for effective implementation at the local level. Korea's economy,...

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Transforming the European energy system : member states’ prospects within the EU framework

Knopf, Brigitte; Bakken, Bjørn; Carrara, Samuel; … - 2014

The Energy Modeling Forum 28 (EMF28) performed a large-scale model comparison exercise to illustrate different technology pathways for cutting European greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. Focusing on selected countries (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and UK), this paper first analyses...

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Smart Environmental Policy with Full-Cost Pricing

Olewiler, Nancy - 2012

Canada's natural capital — its resources, ecosystems and wildlife — are indispensable to the productivity of industry. Despite this, both the public and private sectors have failed to adequately factor in the consequences of production and consumption on the natural environment. There is a...

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Public Environmental Impact Assessment in Planning Process of the Near-Shore Wind Power Farms in Estonia

Lindroos, Karin - 2016

This paper examines the nature and opportunities of public participation in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and planning processes in the context of massive expansion of near-shore wind power farms within the next decade in Estonia. The establishment of new wind farms has aroused...

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Globalisation and National Environmental Policy : Update and Overview

Wijen, Frank; Zoeteman, Kees; Pieters, Jan H. M.; Van … - 2011

After outlining recent developments and the scope, target audience, and structure of the book, we review the literature on globalisation and environmental policy, especially the impact of globalisation on the environment and changes in environmental governance in relation to increasingly global...

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Chapter 23. Environmental Taxation and Regulation

Lans Bovenberg, A.; Goulder, Lawrence H. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 3, (pp. 1471-1545). 2002

This chapter examines government policy alternatives for protecting the environment. We compare environmentally motivated taxes and various non-tax environmental policy instruments in terms of their efficiency and distributional impacts. Much of the analysis is performed in a second-best setting...

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Community-Based Incentives for Environmental Protection : The Case of Green Electricity

Jacobsen, Grant; J. Kotchen, Matthew; Clendennig, Greg - 2023

municipal photovoltaic installations in proportion to the number of households that voluntarily purchase green electricity. We … find that the program causes a 22-percent increase in the number of households purchasing green electricity in CCEC … kilowatt-hour of annual green-electricity demand, and $113 per ton of annual carbon-dioxide emission reductions …

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What Did the Market Buy? Cost Savings Under the U. S. Tradeable Permits Program for Sulfur Dioxide

Keohane, Nathaniel O. - School of Management, Yale University - 2003

Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act instituted a nationwide system of tradeable pollution permits for sulfur dioxide emitted by electric power plants. This paper asks: What were the cost savings from using a market-based instrument, rather than a more conventional prescriptive approach? Using an...

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Environmental domain tagging in the OECD PINE database

Chhun, Bopha - 2024

This paper presents tagging methodologies for 22 environmental domains in the OECD Policy INstruments for the Environment (PINE) database, including seven domains on environmental protection (air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, solid waste, ozone layer, noise and radiation), six...

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International emissions trading in a noncooperative climate policy game

Holtsmark, Bjart; Sommervoll, Dag Einar - 2012

Using a non cooperative climate policy game applied in the literature, we find that an agreement with international emissions trading leads to increased emissions and reduced efficiency.

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