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Environmental and socio-economic consequences of forest carbon payments in Bolivia: Results of the OSIRIS-Bolivia model

Andersen, Lykke E.; Busch, Jonah; Curran, Elizabeth; … - 2012

Bolivia has significant potential to abate climate change by reducing deforestation. This opportunity presents economic and environmental tradeoffs. While these tradeoffs have been hotly debated, they have as yet been the subject of little quantitative analysis. We introduce the OSIRIS-Bolivia...

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Energy, development, and the environment: An appraisal three decades after the "limits to growth" debate

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco - 2006

This work builds upon some long-term secular regularities concerning the relation between consumption of energy, technological progress and economic growth and reassesses the old question raised around forty years ago in the limits to growth discussion (Meadows et al. [1972]), namely are the...

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Resource depletion and capital accumulation under catastrophic risk: The role of stochastic thresholds and stock pollution

Nævdal, Eric; Vislie, Jon - 2012

An intertemporal optimal strategy for accumulation of reversible capital and management of an exhaustible resource is analyzed for a global economy when resource depletion generates discharges that add to a stock pollutant that affects the likelihood for hitting a tipping point or threshold of...

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Curvas de custos marginais de abatimento de gases de efeito estufa no Brasil: Resenha e oportunidades de mitigação

da Motta, Ronaldo Seroa; Couto, Lilia Caiado; Castro, Luiza - 2012

This text review the current studies marginal abatement cost curves (MACC) of greenhouse gases (GHG) for the Brazilian economy, in particular for the industrial sector. Studies on technology-based curves has drawn attention of researchers since they have shown a significant amount of...

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Can redistribution contribute to pollution reductions? An empirical evaluation

Drosdowski, Thomas - 2006

We test the hypothesis that more progressive redistribution contributes to emission reductions with the aid of fixed-effects estimation technique. Using a panel of 16 West European countries over the period 1990-00, we regress emission levels of four different air pollutants on two alternative...

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La huella de carbono y su impacto potencial sobre las exportaciones argentinas

Lottici, María Victoria - 2012

At present, carbon footprint labelling is at the heart of debates on the environmental impact of products, but there are other environmental criteria related to the sustainability of products that could also have an impact on developing countries' exports in the future. Furthermore, this issue...

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Using Geographically Referenced Data on Environmental Exposures for Public Health Research: A Feasibility Study Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Voigtländer, Sven; Goebel, Jan; Claßen, Thomas; Wurm, … - 2011

area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health …-year reanalysis of the EURopean Air pollution Dispersion-Inverse Model (EURAD-IM). Apart from bivariate analyses with subjective air … pollution we estimated cross-sectional multilevel regression models for physical health as assessed by the SF-12. Results: The …

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Ökonomische Wirkungen des Umwelthaftungsgesetzes

Schwarze, Reimund - In: DIW Wochenbericht 71 (2004) 49, pp. 766-771

Führt die zivilrechtliche Umwelthaftung in einem technisch und naturwissenschaftlich komplexen Bereich wie dem Umweltschutz zu einer Stärkung des Verursacherprinzips und zu erhöhter Sorgfalt, oder läuft sie hier ins Leere? Diese Frage beschäftigt Umweltjuristen und Umweltökonomen intensiv...

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Methan - das unterschätzte Klimagas

Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 39, pp. 656-662

Treibhausgasemissionen aus. Unterschätzt wird Methan jedoch vor allem mit Blick auf konkreten Klimaschutz. Bereits zu geringen Kosten gibt es …

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Ökosteuer hat zu geringerer Umweltbelastung des Verkehrs beigetragen

Steiner, Viktor; Cludius, Johanna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 13/14, pp. 2-7

Allein durch die ökologische Steuerreform sind die Preise für Benzin und Diesel zwischen 1998 und 2003 in Deutschland in mehreren Schritten um über 20 Prozent gestiegen. Der Großteil des aus der Erhöhung der Energiesteuersätze resultierenden Aufkommens wurde zur Stabilisierung der...

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