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CO2 Capture and Storage: A Key Carbon Abatement Option
2008
Oil, coal and natural gas will remain the world’s dominant sources of energy over the next decades, with resulting carbon dioxide emissions set to increase to unsustainable levels. However, technologies that help reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuels can reverse this trend. CO2 capture and...
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Energy, Climate Change and Environment : 2016 Insights
International Energy Agency - 2016
The historic Paris Agreement on climate change sets the course for a fundamental transformation of the global economy over the next decades. The Agreement’s overarching goal of limiting global average temperature rise to “well below 2°C” will entail profound changes in the global energy...
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Act Locally, Trade Globally : Emissions trading for climate policy
2005
Climate policy raises a number of challenges for the energy sector, the most significant being the transition from a high to a low-CO2 energy path in a few decades. Act Locally, Trade Globally seeks to provide a complete picture of the future role of emissions trading in climate policy and the...
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Optimising Russian Natural Gas : Reform and Climate Policy
2006
The world’s largest gas producer and exporter, Russia has an enormous energy saving potential. At least 30 billion cubic meters – a fifth of Russian exports to European OECD countries -- could be saved every year by enhanced technology or energy efficiency. As the era of cheap gas in Russia...
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The Potential Role of Carbon Pricing in Thailand’s Power Sector
International Energy Agency - 2021
Thailand is committed to playing its part in the international efforts aimed at addressing climate issues. As it is for most countries, the power sector in Thailand is among the largest emitters, accounting for 38% of energy-related CO2 emissions. Hence, reducing the emissions from this sector...
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LiFE Lessons from India : The Benefits of Advancing the Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) Initiative through the G20
International Energy Agency - 2023
India, the Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) initiative aims to encourage the adoption of sustainable lifestyles in India and internationally to tackle the challenges of environmental degradation and climate change. This report examines how India has integrated several policies in its energy...
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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin; Hansen, Matthew; Olken, Benjamin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce...
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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also … yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent interest such as a distance gradient for land prices and the … elasticity of unit land prices with respect to city population. For the latter, our preferred estimate is 0.72. …
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The growth of cities
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of answers. Within an integrated framework, this chapter reviews key theories with implications for urban growth. It then...
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Urban land use
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by the monocentric model …
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