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Energy consumption, emissions and economic growth in an oil producing country
Ismail, Mohd Adib; Mawar, Murni Yunus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study is aimed to examine the causal relationship between economic growth, energy consumption and emissions in Bahrain. As required by the Kyoto Protocol where Bahrain has ratified in 2006, it is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study uses Toda and Yamamoto’s (1995) approach...
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Energy Consumption Response to Climate Change under Globalization: Options for India
Narayanan, K.; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
increasing. To account for the change in CO2 emission, we have followed index decomposition analysis using data from the PROWESS … database of the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy. Two factors are considered to account for the changes in emission … in reducing emission as compared to the output shifts across the sectors. Based on the findings and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647411
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Techno-economic evaluation of revamping of coal-fired power plants in India
Dutta, Animesh; Dutta, Shantanu; Basu, Prabir - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 26 (2006) 1/2, pp. 6-42
A techno-economic feasibility study has been conducted to investigate the revamping of two 32 MWe Pulverised-Coal (PC) boilers with a number of firing options. The options investigated were: (1) conventional PC revamping, (2) replacement with a new PC boiler, (3) PC to Circulating Fluidised Bed...
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Macroeconomic effects of carbon dioxide emission reduction: a computable general equilibrium analysis for Malaysia
Al-Amin, Abul Quasem; Abdul Hamid, Jaafar; Chamhuri, Siwar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of carbon emission reduces the nominal GDP by 0.82% and exports by 2.08%; a 2.34% reduction of carbon emission reduces … the nominal GDP by 1.90% and exports by 3.97%and a 3.40% reduction of carbon emission reduces the nominal GDP by 3.17% and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619356
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Use of Aggregate Emission Reduction Cost Functions in Designing Optimal Regional SO2 Abatement Strategies
Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike; Molburg, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
sources of emission and 15 sensitive receptor sites. For the purpose of national policy making and international negotiation … reducing emissions from each point source, it was felt necessary to design a method to generate cost functions for emission … regions. The objective of this study was to develop aggregate cost functions that relate the cost of SO2 emission reductions …
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Interrelationships and Causal Linkages Between Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors
Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike; Urquhart, Lynda; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
debt in most OECD countries. Spending for environmental protection contributes to reduced emission of CO2 in all regions of … Asia/Pacific and Southern regions of Western Europe. The findings also indicated that in regions where emission of SO2 is … the greatest, harvesting of forests increased while fish catches declined. Emission of NOx is associated with increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619745
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Causal Relationship Between Indicators of Human Health, the Environment and Socioeconomic Variables for the OECD Countries
Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
, environmental quality, and emission of pollutants and selected socioeconomic variables for selected OECD regions. Path or causal …
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Strategic Voting for Noncooperative Environmental Policies in Open Economies
Hattori, Keisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we construct a political-economy model of international noncooperative environmental policymaking, and examine the strategic incentives for voters to elect an environmental policymaker in open economies. We show that under several circumstances, citizens have an incentive to...
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Environmental Policy to Foster a Green Differentiated Energy Market
Gutierrez-Hita, Carlos; Martinez-Sanchez, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Many products are made by technological processes that cause environmental damage. Current environmental concerns are affecting firms' technological processes as a result of government intervention in markets but also due to environmental awareness on the part of consumers. This paper assumes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258201
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On interactions of optimal climate policy and international trade. An assessment of border carbon measures.
Schenker, Oliver; Bucher, Raphael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Not only after the failure of the Copenhagen climate conference 2009, border carbon adjustment (BCA) has received growing attention in the climate policy debate as a measure to combat "carbon leakage" and force non-abating countries to tighter climate policies. In this paper, we study the...
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