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Cities and Green Growth : A Conceptual Framework

Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - 2011

This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...

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Competition for Access to Natural Resources. Are Collaborative Solutions Possible?

Benintendi, Daniele; Andrews-Speed, Philip - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2013) July

How may tension and conflict in oil, gas and mineral markets undermine future global peace and economic development? Which new modes of behaviour can promote an appropriate balance between competition and collaboration? Possible answers to these key questions stem from the EU project on the...

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Feed-in tariffs for promoting solar PV: progressing from dynamic to allocative efficiency

Bell, William; Foster, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

households. Environmentally, FiTs can also fall short of their full potential to cut emissions if they lack ‘time of day’ price …

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Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective

Kotchen, Matthew J.; Burger, Nicholas E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper provides model-based estimates of the value of oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The best estimate of economically recoverable oil in the federal portion of ANWR is 7.06 billion barrels of oil, a quantity roughly equal to US consumption in 2005. The oil is worth...

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Cities and Green Growth: Case Study of the Paris/Ile-de-France Region

Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Plouin, Marissa - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2012

This report, developed within the framework of the OECD Green Cities programme, is a pilot case study examining the green growth potential of the Paris-IDF region. In a context of stiff international competition and internal socio-economic and environmental pressures, green growth could be an...

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Urban Trends and Policies in OECD Countries

Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Sanchez-Reaza, Javier - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2012

This working paper is one in a series of OECD Working Papers on Regional Development of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, conducted under the responsibility of Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of the OECD Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division...

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Analyzing rebound effects

Schettkat, Ronald - Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy - 2009

Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects - so-called rebound effects - compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...

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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

Knittel, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....

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Cities and Green Growth: A Conceptual Framework

Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2011

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Alternative Climate Policies and Intertemporal Emissions Leakage: Quantifying the Green Paradox

Fischer, Carolyn; Salant, Stephen - 2012

—accelerating cost reductions in the clean backstop technologies, taxing emissions, improving energy efficiency, and a clean fuel blend …Efforts to limit cumulative emissions over the next century may be partially thwarted by the responses of fossil fuel … they predict such strong supplier responses that climate policies may have no effect on cumulative emissions and may even …

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