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Environmental policy and innovation: a decade of research

Popp, David - 2019

Encouraging innovation is an important part of environmental policy. A large literature in environmental economics … examines the links between environmental policy and innovation. This paper reviews recent literature on green innovation. I … different policy instruments on innovation. I include a discussion of the justifications and evidence for technology …

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Fiscal and Regulatory Instruments for Clean Technology Development in the European Union

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015

This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...

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Should We Give Up After Solyndra? Optimal Technology R&D Portfolios under Uncertainty

Webster, Mort D.; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 2015

Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...

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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors

Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010

This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...

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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...

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HDR 2007/2008 - Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even...

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Climate change mitigation options and directed technical change: a decentralized equilibrium analysis

Grimaud, André; Lafforgue, Gilles; Magné, Bertrand - 2009

The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) efficiency. First, we characterize the set of decentralized equilibria: A particular equilibrium is associated to each vector of public tools which includes...

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