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Renewable energy investment stimulants in Polish agricultural holdings as a part of supporting sustainable agriculture

Graczyk, Alicja Małgorzata - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 693-706

The article concerns the analysis of the results of surveys conducted by the author in Lower Silesia region in Poland. The results of the research presented in the article have been narrowed down for the stimulants (benefits, advantages and reasons) of the renewable energy sources (RES)...

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Green finance in Bangladesh : policies, institutions, and challenges

Hossain, Monzur - 2018

This paper provides an overview of Bangladesh's green financing status, with a particular focus on the renewable energy (RE) sector. Despite having great potential of renewable energy sources, the sector currently consists of a meager 1% share of the energy portfolio. The poor performance of the...

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Competition Law and Trade in Energy vs. Sustainable Development : A Clash of Individualism and Cooperative Partnerships?

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2018

At first sight the potential discrepancy between competitive behavior of market participants, trade rules and the basic notion of sustainable development may seem to be of a negligible importance. However, during the interactions of market processes with sustainability goals through various...

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Energy : Policy, Legal and Social-Economic Issues Under the Dimensions of Sustainability and Security

Farah, Paolo Davide; Rossi, Piercarlo - 2015

Energy is a crucial issue for mankind. Especially in modern times, energy has been a factor of economic development and wealth. Today energy is strictly related with the notion of empowerment since energy allows any kind of contemporary life for humans: entertainment, work and protection....

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A Comparison between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States : Water, Environmental Protection, and Sustainable Development

Farah, Paolo Davide; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2016

China is believed to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental, and investment-related issues will likely restrain its exploitation. China's capacity to face these hurdles successfully and produce commercial shale gas will have...

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Sustainable Development and Market Liberalism's Shotgun Wedding : Emissions Trading Under the Kyoto Protocol

Driesen, David M. - 2014

This article analyzes the international emissions trading regime at the heart of the world's effort to address global warming as a means of exploring broader international governance issues. The trading regime seeks to marry two models of global governance, market liberalism, which embraces...

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Do we still need carbonIntensive capital when transitioning to a green economy?

Jin, Wei; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Zhang, Lin - 2020

This paper presents a two-sector green endogenous growth model to explore a mechanism that explains why carbon-intensive capital is not necessarily shut down during transition to a green economy. Without accumulating clean capital to offset carbon emissions, a tightening of climate regulation...

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Carbon pricing and competitiveness : are they at odds?

Ellis, Jane; Nachtigall, Daniel; Venmans, Frank - 2019

This paper reviews ex-post empirical assessments on the impact of carbon pricing on competitiveness in OECD and G20 … carbon pricing or energy prices on different dimensions of competitiveness, including net imports, foreign direct investments …-term effects of carbon pricing on firms’ or sectors’ international competitiveness have not come to pass, at least to date. These …

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The emissions reduction potential for freight transport on a high-speed rail line along the "European Silk Road"

Arsenev, Aleksandr; Angers, Erica; Holzner, Mario - 2023

This report estimates the CO2 emissions of freight transport on a hypothetical high-speed rail (HSR) line along the northern route, from Lyon to Warsaw, of a 'European Silk Road' (ESR). Using a methodology consisting of predictions regarding the freight-carrying capacity of the future HSR, and...

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Governing clean energy transitions in China and India: A comparative political economy analysis

Isoaho, Karoliina; Goritz, Alexandra; Schulz, Nicolai - 2016

China and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from unsustainable resource consumption. While the majority of transition literature has focused on the diverse socio-technical factors that could enable such a transformation, more...

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