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Machine Learning the Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin Mining

Calvo-Pardo, Hector F. - 2020

Building on an economic model of rational Bitcoin mining, we measure the carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining power consumption using feed-forward neural networks. After reviewing the literature on deep learning methods, we find associated carbon footprints of 3.8038, 23.8313 and 19.83472 MtCOe...

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The Carbon Footprint of Italian Loans

Faiella, Ivan - 2020

This article presents a first insight on the carbon content of business loans in Italy, using three different methods to identify the sectors more exposed to transition risks. According to our estimates, the loans' carbon footprint of Italian banks is small compared to other European peers and...

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Global assessment of the carbon leakage implications of carbon taxes on agricultural emissions

Henderson, Ben - 2021

Carbon leakage arises when emission reductions in countries applying a carbon tax are offset, partially or completely, by emission increases in countries that do not apply the tax or any other greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policies. Analysis using the MAGNET computable general equilibrium...

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Do female parliamentarians improve environmental quality? : cross-country evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Salahodjaev, Raufhon - 2022

This study explores the empowerment of women in politics on the environmental sustainability. Using data for the period 2015-2019 from 179 countries, we investigate the link between representation of women in parliament and the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). To explore the causal effect,...

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Estimating the marginal abatement costs of carbon dioxide emissions in China : a parametric analysis

Du, Limin; Hanley, Aoife; Wei, Chu - 2013

This paper investigates the technical inefficiency, shadow price and substitution elasticity of CO2 emissions of China based on a provincial panel for 2001-2010. Using linear programming to calculate a quadratic parameterized directional output distance function, we show that China’s technical...

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Policy design in the context of multiple pollutants and regulators

Goetz, Renan; Xabadia, Angels; Zilberman, David - 2021

externalities. For example, one authority may regulate a stock pollution and another a flow pollution that result from the same … warming and local air pollution as a result of CO2 emissions, a review of the results of integrated assessment model shows … potential for a tax to control local air pollution is likely to clearly be in the two-digit percent range if they take account …

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Climate Impacts on Natural Capital : Consequences for the Social Cost of Carbon

Bastien-Olvera, Bernardo A.; Moore, Frances C. - 2021

The effects of climate change on natural systems will be substantial, wide-spread, and likely irreversible. Warmer temperatures and changing precipitation patterns have already contributed to forest dieback and pushed some species towards extinction. Natural systems contribute to human welfare...

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Wealth inequality and CO2 emissions in emerging economies : the case of BRICS

Aye, Goodness C. - 2020

As the world battles with the triple problems of social, economic, and environmental challenges, it has become important to focus both policy and research efforts on these. Therefore, this study examines the effect of wealth inequality on CO2 emissions in five emerging economies: Brazil, Russia,...

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Carbon footprint, demography, and employment status?

Carlhoff, Henrik - 2019

This paper investigates the interplay between aging of a society and its carbon dioxide emissions. The existing literature based on US data predicts lower overall emissions due to the lower emission intensity of consumption of a growing old-age share of the population. This conjecture is...

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What we know and don't know about climate change, and implications for policy

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2020 - This draft: May 11, 2020

There is a lot we know about climate change, but there is also a lot we don't know. Even if we knew how much CO2 will be emitted over the coming decades, we wouldn't know how much temperatures will rise as a result. And even if we could predict the extent of warming that will occur, we can say...

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