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Governments worldwide have agreed that international climate policy should aim to limit the increase of global mean temperature to less than 2oC with respect to pre-industrial levels. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the emission reductions and related energy system changes in various...
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that in 2010-2012, 868 million people were undernourished world-wide. At the sam time, FAO reported that approximately 1.3 billion tons of food were lost or wasted globally in 2007, which was equivalent to...
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Governments worldwide have agreed that international climate policy should aim to limit the increase of global mean temperature to less than 2°C with respect to pre-industrial levels. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the emission reductions and related energy system changes in various...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has already made a significant impact on various sectors. No country was fully prepared to face this global pandemic, and Indonesia is no exception. For Indonesia, this pandemic shook not only the public health service system but also the economy. This study makes...
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This study assesses the impacts of introducing an oil products tax on the general economy, economic structure, energy consumption, and air pollutant emissions (CO<Subscript>2</Subscript>, SO<Subscript>2</Subscript>, and NO<Subscript>x</Subscript>) in China using a static computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The conclusion is that taxation on oil products...</subscript></subscript></subscript>
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In this paper, we assessed the technological feasibility and economic viability of the mid-term (until 2050) GHG emission reduction target required for stabilization of radiative forcing at 2.6 W/m2. Given the apparent uncertainty surrounding the future deployment of nuclear and CCS...
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With fast economic development, industrialization and urbanization, China faces increasing pressures on carbon emission reduction, and especially on air pollutants (SO2, NOx, PM) reduction, particularly the notorious haze issue caused by air pollution in recent years. Pursuing co-benefits is an...
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