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Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change problem. This paper takes a policy-making perspective and...
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According to the Phase IV (2021-2030) rules of the EU ETS, the total amount of emissions permits allocated to firms is not fixed but endogenous. This implies that a national climate policy that overlaps with the emission trading system can have an impact on total aggregate emissions. Roughly...
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This paper examines the determinants of individuals’ awareness of EU Energy Labels and the extent to which these labels influence their purchase decisions for electric appliances. The analysis is based on Eurobarometer survey data from 27,438 individuals across 28 EU Member States in 2019....
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econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
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species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
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We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in "rich" developed countries (North), but very low in "poor" developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South - as stipulated in the Convention on …
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This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more "forward looking" societies, with a small discount rate and a high …
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We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory shows that both intra- and intertemporal inequality affect the social value of public natural capital. The direction and size of the effects are driven by the degree of...
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biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …
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