Sustainability management requires differentiated information on the environmental and economic consequences of material demand's increasing and decreasing factors. Material flow cost accounting fails to provide this information due to the common undifferentiated determination of realized costs...

This research models and examines multiple decarbonisation pathways for Europe to 2050, evaluating trade-offs between emissions reductions, costs, and implications for gas demand. Scenarios that front-load decarbonisation to 2040 show prohibitively high marginal abatement costs, while a more...

This paper shows that even moderate air pollution levels, such as those in Europe, harm the economy by reducing firm performance. Using monthly firm-level data from France, we estimate the causal impact of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on sales and worker absenteeism. Leveraging exogenous...

Environmental legislation, when implemented and enforced, will deliver improvements for environmental health, human health, and society and the economy more broadly. Where relevant legislation is not implemented as planned and targets are not met, such benefits are foregone. This study has...

Environmental legislation, when implemented and enforced, will deliver improvements for environmental health, human health, and society and the economy more broadly. Where relevant legislation is not implemented as planned and targets are not met, such benefits are foregone. This study has...

Companies in various industries are under growing pressure to assess the costs of decarbonizing their operations. This paper develops a generic abatement cost concept to identify the cost-efficient combination of technological and operational changes firms would need to implement to drastically...