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Reaching national Kyoto-targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development
Bayer, Stefan; Kemfert, Claudia - 2000
This paper investigates the sustainability of the German economy when reaching the Kyoto emissions reduction target. We … use a special intergenerational discounting technique which actually takes into account intergenerational peculiarities in … with a conventional discounting method. By applying this discounting technique sustainable growth paths of all economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305082
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Reaching national Kyoto-targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development
Bayer, Stefan; Kemfert, Claudia - 2000
measures in a national OverLapping Generations (OLG)-model, where we change the discounting technique by using generation … adjusted discounting (GAD) in comparison to conventional OLG-models. We show that within our model-framework Germany is able to … cost-bearance, or, in other words, the polluter pay principle which is oriented on the sustainability of GHG abatement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608661
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Global Warming : Correcting the Data
Michaels, Patrick - 2008
Temperature records compiled by the International Panel on Climate Change are biased by non-climatic factors that are largely socioeconomic in origin. The result is that as much as 50 percent of the land-surface warming that has been detected in recent decades may not be the product of global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213426
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Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives : Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
distributive justice and efficiency, the choice of interest rate for discounting dollars, and how the present approach relates to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760791
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Sustainable Food and the Constitution
Hernandez Lopez, Ernesto - 2018
Sustainable food policies strive for environmental, healthy, economically just, and humane food production. Their success has ignited legal debates about the Constitution. This is not new. Iconic constitutional law cases examine sustainable food, such as meat in the Slaughter-House Cases (1873),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112979
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The European emission trading scheme and renewable energy policies: credible targets for incredible results?
Borghesi, Simone - 2010
This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European Trading System of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272416
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A meaningful US cap-and-trade system to address climate change
Stavins, Robert N. - 2008
There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In this article, I propose and analyze a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically feasible approach for the United States to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798528
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Malapportionment, Gasoline Taxes, and Climate Change
Broz, J. Lawrence - 2010
Gasoline taxes vary widely among industrialized countries, as does support for the United Nations' effort to curtail the use of fossil fuels to address the climate change problem. We argue that malapportionment of the electoral system affects both the rate at which governments tax gasoline and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140814
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‘No Ordinary Lawsuit’ : Climate Change, Due Process, and the Public Trust Doctrine
Blumm, Michael C. - 2017
In November 2016, just two days after the election of President Donald Trump, the federal district court in Oregon handed down Juliana v. Obama, a remarkable decision that refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by youth plaintiffs who claimed that federal government's fossil fuel policies over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958424
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Clean Energy Technologies Trade : Sliding from Protection to Protectionism Through Obligations for Technology Transfer in Climate Change Law, or Vice Versa?
Koskina-Saridaki, Anthi; Farah, Paolo Davide; Ibrahim, … - 2021
Global regulations involving clean energy technologies have evolved in recent decades. Such evolution came as a result of technological disparities between the North and the South. Such regulatory changes came because of the failure of developed nations to assist developing countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235353