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Multinationals' Political Strategies on Climate Change

Kolk, Ans; Pinkse, Jonatan - 2007

This paper explores the international dimensions of multinationals' corporate political activities, focusing on an international issue - climate change - that is being implemented differently in a range of countries. Analyzing data from FT Global 500 firms, it examines the influence on types and...

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Global Warming and Geo-Economic Position of China

Konina, Natalia - 2022

The article is devoted to the increasing importance of global warming and the active attention to these issues by key actors in geo-economics. The problems of the balance of forces between the leading world centers - China, the US and the EU in the modern geo-economic confrontation is connected...

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A Global Migration Framework Under Water : How Can the International Community Protect Climate Refugees?

Sussman, Caitlan M. - 2023

Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...

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Business and Climate Change : Key Challenges in the Face of Policy Uncertainty and Economic Recession

Kolk, Ans; Pinkse, Jonatan - 2009

Climate change is seen as the most pressing environmental problem of our time by many companies, policymakers and other stakeholders. It is currently also at the forefront of attention in view of attempts to conclude a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. In bail-out plans and...

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The Cancún Climate Conference

Burleson, Elizabeth; Romano, Cesare P.R - 2011

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Property Rights on the New Frontier : Climate Change, Natural Resource Development, and Renewable Energy

Klass, Alexandra B. - 2015

This Article explores the history of natural resources law and pollution control law to provide insights into current efforts by states to create wind easements, solar easements, and other property rights in the use of or access to renewable resources. Development of these resources is critical...

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Free Lunch or Cheap Fix? : The Emissions Trading Idea and the Climate Change Convention

Driesen, David M. - 2014

Emissions trading has become a key component of U.S. environmental legal regimes. The U.S. has successfully lobbied to make international environmental benefit trading, an expanded form of emissions trading, a part of international efforts to address the threat of global climate change through...

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The Evolution and Anatomy of Recent Climate Change Bills in the U.S. Senate : Critique and Recommendations

Richards, Kenneth R.; Richards, Stephanie - 2014

The United States' current financial conditions notwithstanding, climate change remains at the forefront of our national policy agenda. Congress has already considered comprehensive climate legislation in the recent past; during the 110th Congress, three climate change bills were considered in...

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Decarbonization and Electrification in the Long Run

Holland, Stephen P.; Mansur, Erin; Yates, Andrew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Decarbonization and electrification will require a transformed electricity grid. Our long-run model of entry and exit … of generation and storage capacity captures crucial aspects of the electricity industry such as time-varying demand for … electricity, intermittency of renewables, and intertemporal optimization of storage. We derive several theoretical possibilities …

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Análisis de la demanda residencial de los servicios básicos en España usando un modelo QUAIDS censurado

Gálvez, Pablo; Mariel, Petr; Hoyos, David - In: Estudios de Economía 43 (2016) 1, pp. 5-28

(i.e. electricity, natural gas and drinking water) in 2012. The analysis is made using a QUAIDS model modified in order … advances in this field. The results show that the demand for electricity and drinking water is less sensitive to the variations …

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