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Carbon emissions trading in China: The evolution from pilots to a nationwide scheme

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2015

The Chinese central government has approved the seven pilot carbon trading schemes. These seven pilot regions are deliberately selected to be at varying stages of development and are given considerable leeway to design their own schemes. These pilot trading schemes have features in common, but...

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Transboundary capital and pollution flows and the emergence of regional inequalities

Levin, Simon; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2015

We seek to explain the emergence of spatial heterogeneity regarding development and pollution on the basis of interactions associated with the movement of capital and polluting activities from one economy to another. We use a simple dynamical model describing capital accumulation along the lines...

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Green skills

Vona, Francesco; Marin, Giovanni; Consoli, Davide; … - 2015

While policymakers talk of "green skills", there is little systematic empirical research on the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. We propose a data-driven methodology to identify green skills and to gauge the ways in which the demand for these...

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Optimal adaptation and mitigation to climate change in small environmental economies

Chisari, Omar; Galiani, Sebastián; Miller, Sebastián - 2013

This paper compares the optimal dynamic choices between policies of mitigation and adaptation for three economies: Brazil, Chile and the United States. The focus is on the optimal role of mitigation and adaptation for 'environmentally small economies,' i.e., economies that are witnessing an...

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The World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund and China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2004

As the first global carbon fund, the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) aims to catalyze the market for project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions while promoting sustainable development and offering a learning-by-doing opportunity to its stakeholders. Since the inception in 2000,...

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Zum Stromkonsum von Haushalten in Grundsicherung: Eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland

Aigeltinger, Gerd; Heindl, Peter; Liessem, Verena; … - 2015

In diesem Aufsatz werden der Stromkonsum und die Kosten, die den Haushalten in Grundsicherung in Deutschland daraus entstehen, untersucht. Dazu wird ein Datensatz ausgewertet, der mehr als 22.000 Haushalte mit Leistungsbezug nach SGB II und SGB XII in verschiedenen Haushaltszusammensetzungen...

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Impactos ambientais e econômicos dos veículos elétricos e híbridos plug-in: Uma revisão da literatura

Vonbun, Christian - 2015

This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...

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Carbon Tax Burdens on Low-Income Households: A Reason for Delaying Climate Policy?

Parry, Ian - 2015

This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...

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The Impact of Environmental Innovation on Employment Growth in Europe

Peters, Bettina; Licht, Georg - 2014

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …

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Economic Effects of Renewable Energy Expansion: A Model-Based Analysis for Germany

Blazejczak, Jürgen; Braun, Frauke G.; Edler, Dietmar; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 40 (2014), pp. 1070-1080

The increasing utilization of renewable energy sources (RES) is a major energy policy strategy in many countries worldwide. Germany is a forerunner in the deployment of RES and has ambitious goals for the future. The support and use of renewables affects the economy: It creates business...

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