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OPEC Production Quotas and the World Trade Organization

Farah, Paolo Davide; Cima, Elena - 2022

whole world. The energy sector can be roughly divided into renewable energy, on the one hand, and fossil fuels, on the other … set the world price for oil. And it has done so undisturbed—by cutting prices or imposing quotas according to its Members …’ specific needs—for half a century. The environmental concerns and the “climatic emergency” that have affected the world in the …

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Bringing the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations to conclusion

Whalley, John (contributor); Walsh, Sean (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we discuss the global negotiations now underway and aimed at achieving new climate change mitigation and other arrangements after 2012 (the end of the Kyoto commitment period). These were initiated in Bali in December 2007 and are scheduled to conclude by the end of 2009 in...

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Effective Carbon Prices and Sub-Global Climate Cooperation

Dominioni, Goran - 2021

Scholarly and policy interest in carbon pricing coalitions is growing. Existing research analyzes design features that can increase the environmental effectiveness and political resilience of coalitions centered around carbon taxes and carbon markets (i.e. explicit carbon pricing). This article...

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Bringing the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Negotiations to Conclusion

Whalley, John; Walsh, Sean - 2021

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International agreements, economic sovereignty and exit

Richardson, Martin; Stähler, Frank - 2018

We develop a model in which it is uncertainty about the future domestic policy environment that both makes international cooperation attractive and induces the possibility of a nation reneging on such an international agreement. We show, in a fairly general setting in which the likelihood of...

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Are international environmental policies effective? : the case of the Rotterdam and the Stockholm Conventions

Núñez-Rocha, Thaís; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2018

This paper is the first to estimate the effect of two international agreements (Rotterdam Convention, RC, and the Stockholm Convention, SC) in reducing trade in hazardous substances. We estimate the effects of ratification of these agreements on imports of the affected products putting emphasis...

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Assessing the effectiveness of environmental provisions in regional trade agreements : an empirical analysis

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2018

This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has contributed to the improvement of environmental quality among the Parties to these agreements through empirical modelling and analysis. Three indicators are considered as a proxy...

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Global Environmental Agreements and Trade Sanctions

Ederington, Josh - 2001

Recent interest in the environment, combined with the recognition that many environmental problems have global consequences, has focused attention on global environmental agreements as a means of controlling for transboundary externalities. An important issue in the formation of these...

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From fossil fuels to renewables : the role of electricity storage

Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda; Pelli, Martino - 2016

We analyze the role of electricity storage for technological innovations in electricity generation. We propose a directed technological change model of the electricity sector, where innovative firms develop better electricity storage solutions, which affect not only the relative competitiveness...

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Environmental Economics : The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of this Field around the First Earth Day

Fullerton, Don - 2020

How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics was not a field of economics before this brief period,...

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