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Australia's Carbon Tax: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?

Spash, Clive L.; Lo, Alex Y. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The Australian Government has produced a CO2-equivalent tax proposal with a difference, it is a short prelude to an emission trading scheme that will allow the increasing rate of emissions to continue, while being a net cost to the Treasury. That cost extends to allowing major emitters to make...

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The economics of global environmental risk

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

into the future. It proposes sound principles of risk management that make sense in today's society generally, going beyond … them, it deals with different aspects of the theory of risk-bearing. I explain current responses to global change, focusing …

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Environmental Management in Agriculture – Case of Bulgaria

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper presents a holistic framework for analysing, assessment and improvement of environmental management in agriculture, and assesses the forms, factors and efficiency of agro-eco-management in Bulgaria during post-communist transition and EU integration. It incorporates an...

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Europe 2020: an Alternative Proposal

Stagnaro, Carlo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The European Union has unilaterally decided to implement a cap & trade scheme to contain greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions, starting on 1 January 2005. After the First Phase of the Scheme had been concluded on 31 December 2007, emissions from the sectors covered by the European Emissions Trading...

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The effect of learning on climate policy under fat-tailed uncertainty

Hwang, In Chang; Reynes, Frederic; Tol, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We construct an endogenous (Bayesian) learning model with fat-tailed uncertainty on the equilibrium climate sensitivity and solve the model with stochastic dynamic programming. In our model a decision maker updates her belief on the climate sensitivity through temperature observations each time...

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Using a Policy Mix for Pollution Control – A Review of Economic Literature

Lehmann, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This article provides a review of economic studies analyzing the use of multiple policies – a socalled policy mix – to cope with single pollution problems. To guide and structure the review, an analytical framework is developed and applied. The framework integrates transaction costs into the...

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The Taxation of Motor Fuel: International Comparison

Eduardo, Ley; Jessica, Boccardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We apply the Parry-Small (2005) framework to asses whether the level taxation of motor fuel is broadly appropriate in a group of countries (OECD, BRICs and South Africa) accounting for more than 80 percent of world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper deals with emissions from oil...

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Rescue costs and financial risk

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

First externalities risk due to the size of the companies or the principle that large companies are also at risk of … for savers and investors are taken. If we accept-so conservatively that the risk exposure of a company is limited by its … risk foreseeable losses with positive externalities, then, what can happen with negative derivatives risk capital …

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SRI Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh : Achievements, Problems and Implications for GHGs and Work

Duvvuru, Narasimha Reddy; Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Strategies and solutions to meet the challenges of GHGs call for new methods and technologies. Potential options for the rice industry sector to contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change by increasing rice production in a physically sustainable manner are attracting...

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Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change: A Literature Review

Ahmed, Khalid; Long, Wei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Climate Change is one of the biggest challenges the human race is being encountered in this centaury. The continuous rise in average temperature, extreme weather occurrence, occurrence of drought and floods, intensity and frequency of storms, change in precipitation, and so many other identified...

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