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Utility from consumption might be spoiled by the degradation of the environment. The incorporation of a direct … along a path with damped oscillations of consumption and rehabilitative investment, and characterized by a larger production …
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Global food production practices and consumption patterns have changed notably in the last few decades. Current dietary … patterns are characterized by increased consumption of refined sugars as well as higher intakes of heavily-processed and animal … association between the consumption of meat and fish and economic and socio-demographic factors, different consumption habits and …
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pecuniary externalities. Absent institutional constraints like prices and budgets, the optimal consumption rule would have … annuitize, the growth rate of marginal utility will be the discount rate minus the interest rate, resulting in a consumption … profile that is too flat. Accidental bequests transfer wealth from the old to the young, steepening the consumption profile …
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We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...
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This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...
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The paper reviews a number of commercial and public data sources to examine their potential for increasing coverage and understanding of the volume and characteristics of private climate finance beyond renewable energy projects. Such information is needed to assess progress towards the global...
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Quantifying the effect of public interventions aimed at mobilising private finance for climate activities is technically complex and challenging. As a step towards addressing this complexity, the report presents a framework of key decision points for estimating publicly mobilised private...
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Many studies on household energy efficiency investments suggest that a wide range of seemingly profitable investments are not taken up. This paper provides novel evidence on the main factors behind consumer choices using the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes. The...
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This chapter addresses Russian environmental finance from a different angle than most of the chapters in this book. The discussion focuses on how Russian companies and Russia, generally, engage in outward investment activity within the Southern African countries.This chapter is based on the...
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