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Trends in policy indicators on trade and environment

Garsous, Grégoire - 2019

Addressing the relationship between domestic environmental regulations and international trade policies is essential to better understand the need for consistency and complementarity between these areas. The set of trade and environment indicators developed by the OECD aims to provide insights...

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Assessing the effectiveness of environmental provisions in regional trade agreements : an empirical analysis

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2018

This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has contributed to the improvement of environmental quality among the Parties to these agreements through empirical modelling and analysis. Three indicators are considered as a proxy...

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Unravelling the Worldwide Pollution Haven Effect

Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; de Melo, Jaime - 2011

This paper tackles the 'pollution haven' argument by estimating the pollution content of imports (PCI). The PCI is then … endowment component and a 'pollution haven' component reflecting the impact of differences in environmental policies. The …. Decompositions based on cross-section econometric estimates suggest a significant pollution haven effect which increases the PCI of …

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Environmental Performance and Climate Policy

Brännlund, Runar; Lundgren, Tommy; Marklund, Per-Olov - 2011

This study’s ultimate goal is to analyze environmental performance (EP) at firm level and the effectiveness of environmental policy along with other possible determinants. Especially, the empirical analysis aims at exploring the relationship between the actual EP of firms in terms of CO2...

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An Analysis of Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change

Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - 2013

climate-related damage reduction, and the benefit-cost ratios of each of these strategies are assessed for the world as a …

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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023

on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by … pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

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Inequality and climate change : two problems, one solution?

Nicolli, Francesco; Gilli, Marianna; Vona, Francesco - 2022

This paper re-examines the relationship between per capita income, inequality, and per capita emissions while accounting for nonhomotheticity in green preferences and nonlinearities in the impact of economic growth on GHG emissions. Theoretically, our research is motivated by the fact that if...

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Low Carbon Growth : Economic Progress from the Planet’s Perspective

Sta. Romana, Leonardo L. - 2022

The term “low carbon growth” does not appear explicitly in any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the 169 associated Targets (UN General Assembly 2015). Instead, it is mentioned by means of a synonymous term in one of the associated Indicators, i.e., in SDG Indicator 13.2.1. The...

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A theoretical analysis of the effectiveness of sustainable development assistance on environmental quality

Pindiriri, Carren - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-11

effectiveness and impact of SDA on environmental quality can be derived. The paper applies the classical consumer theory of utility …

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The role of cities in protecting environmental quality

Nižić, Marinela Krstinić; Baresa, Suzana - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 3, pp. 325-339

positively and negatively. Therefore, the basic aim of this paper is demonstrating that cities can resist pollution and improve …

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