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A multi-gas approach to climate policy: With and without GWPs

Manne, Alan S.; Richels, Richard G. - 2000

When dealing with multiple greenhouse gases, we need some way to establish equivalence among gases. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has suggested the use of global warming potentials (GWPs) for making such trade-offs. We begin by examining the implications of such an...

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A tax on output of the polluting industry is not a tax on pollution: The importance of hitting the target

Fullerton, Don; Hong, Inkee; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2000

We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies indicates few (if any) examples of a true tax on pollution. More typically, environmental taxes target an input or output that is correlated with pollution. We construct a simple...

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The impact of privatisation on capital market development and individual share ownership

Megginson, William L.; Boutchkova, Maria K. - 2000

This study has two objectives: to estimate the impact of share issue privatisations on the growth of world capital … role of commercial banks, in corporate financial systems around the world. We then show that privatisation programmes have … world as a whole, as well as for most major country groupings. (2) During that same time period, stock market capitalisation …

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Will joint implementation survive international emissions trading? Distinguishing the Kyoto mechanisms

Janssen, Josef - 2000

The Kyoto Protocol stipulates that industrialised countries and countries with economies in transition, i.e. the group of Annex I countries, shall reduce their overall emissions of carbon dioxide and other five greenhouse gases by at least 5 % as compared to their 1990 emission levels. This...

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Costs, structure and equity of international regimes for climate change mitigation

Carraro, Carlo - 2000

paper analyses whether there are the conditions for an agreement on climate change to be signed by all or almost all world …

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Contracts for clean development: The role of technology transfers

Millock, Katrin - 2000

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offers abatement cost savings under the Kyoto Protocol by allowing credits for emission reductions obtained in signatory developing countries. The paper shows that it is necessary to include technology transfers in the CDM to obtain correct incentives for...

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Towards a typology of "environmentally-adjusted" national sustainability indicators: Key concepts and policy application

O'Connor, Martin - 2000

economy and the national territory to the rest of the world, as well as to the contribution of social and community capital to …

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Globalisation and maritime transportation: Competition, uncertainty and implications for port development strategy

Slack, Brian - 2001

The maritime industry is in a period of unprecedented change. Around the world, and in every sector radically new …

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Public participation in Local Agenda 21: A review of traditional and innovative tools

Sors, Julie Catherine - 2001

There is a wealth of existing literature on specific methods to encourage public participation in Local Agenda 21. This paper provides a concise overview and comparative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. For the sake of clarity, these methods are categorised into...

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Sources of performance improvement in privatised firms: A clinical study of the global telecommunications industry

Megginson, William L.; Bortolotti, Bernardo; D'Souza, Juliet - 2001

This paper examines the financial and operating performance of 31 national telecommunication companies in 25 countries that were fully or partially privatised through public share offering between October 1981 and November 1998. Using conventional pre- versus post-privatisation comparisons, we...

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