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The 'Cash for Clunkers' Program : A Sustainability Evaluation
Tyrrell, Marianne; Dernbach, John C. - 2015
This article describes and evaluates the effectiveness of the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009, also known as the “Cash for Clunkers” legislation. Under this law, Congress authorized persons trading in older and less fuel-efficient motor vehicles for newer and more...
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Making Sustainable Development Happen : From Johannesburg to Albany
Dernbach, John C. - 2015
This article explains sustainable development as well as the outcomes of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable …
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Federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Laws
Dernbach, John C.; Tyrrell, Marianne - 2015
This paper provides an overview of U.S. law and policy concerning energy efficiency and conservation. The United States appears torn between two narratives - one expressing the abundant demonstrated opportunities provided by energy savings and the other based on a fear of deprivation from using...
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Der Klimawandel wird weitergehen : eine unbequeme Wahrheit
Neubäumer, Renate - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 11, pp. 798-807
durch eine starke Reduktion des deutschen (und europäischen) CO2-Ausstoßes der Klimawandel eindämmen lässt und seine … Klimawandel wird weitergehen. In Deutschland ist ein Umdenken erforderlich. …
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Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
Mehling, Michael A. - 2017
participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved – adequate collective …
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A Framework for Comparing Climate Mitigation Policies Across Countries
Black, Simon; Minnett, Danielle; Parry, Ian; Roaf, James; … - 2023
There is growing interest in international coordination over climate mitigation policy. Climate clubs or international carbon price floors could complement the Paris Agreement by helping to deliver the near-term cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions needed to contain global warming to 1.5 to...
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On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
Weitzman, Martin - 2018
conceptually useful allegory of a futuristic "World Climate Assembly" (WCA) that votes for a single worldwide price on carbon … derives fresh insights and new simple formulas that relate each emitter's most-preferred world price of carbon to the world … "Social Cost of Carbon" (SCC), and further relates the WCA-voted world price of carbon to the world SCC. I argue that the WCA …
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The Economics of Renewable Energy
Carson, Brad - 2015
Levelized cost is the preferred method of evaluating various energy technologies. Yet this ubiquitous technique is rarely questioned, and its history is poorly understood. This paper traces the history of levelized cost as a method and highlights its promise and pitfalls. The levelized cost of...
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The Australian LNG Industry : Legal and Commercial Challenges
Crossley, Penelope - 2017
Australia will become the world's largest LNG producer by 2018. This Chapter explores the development of the Australian …
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What is a feasible and 1.5°C-aligned hydrogen infrastructure for Germany? : a multi-criteria economic study based on socio-technical energy scenarios
Hoffart, Franziska - 2022
Emission-free hydrogen (H2) is crucial to decarbonize energy supply and to tackle the climate crisis. To unlock the potential of H2, pipelines infrastructures and related investments are required to enable trade. However, it is uncertain what future H2 infrastructure will be needed. The paper...
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