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Calculating the Carbon Footprint from Different Classes of Air Travel

Bofinger, Heinrich; Strand, Jon - 2013

This paper develops a new methodology for calculating the "carbon footprint" of air travel whereby emissions from travel in premium (business and first) classes depend heavily on the average class-specific occupied floor space. Unlike methods currently used for the purpose, the approach properly...

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Cutting Greenhouse Gases, Raising Air Pollution

Ebadi, Ebad; Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique - 2025

Trade's impact on emissions is not straightforward. Existing literature on trade and emissions primarily focuses on countries' net export emissions, often neglecting the emissions saved by importing products instead of producing them domestically. The environmental impact from trade is...

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Assessment of Net Mitigation in the Context of International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Mechanisms

Strand, Jon - 2016

This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...

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Economic Analysis of Projects in a Greenhouse World

Hamilton, Kirk; Stover, Jana - 2012

Recent carbon market prices are substantially lower than mean or median estimates of the social cost of carbon in the literature. Intuition would therefore suggest that 'investment errors' are being made, in the sense that markets favor higher carbon-emitting projects, while global welfare would...

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Economic Implications of Reducing Carbon Emissions from Energy Use and Industrial Processes in Brazil

Chen, Y.-H. Henry; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2012

The overall impacts on the Brazilian economy of reducing CO2 emissions from energy use and industrial processes can be assessed using a recursive dynamic general equilibrium model and a hypothetical carbon tax. The study projects that in 2040 under a business-as-usual scenario, CO2 emissions...

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Air Pollution During Growth : Accounting for Governance and Vulnerability

Dasgupta, Susmita; Hamilton, Kirk; Pandey, Kiran - 2013

New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …

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Addressing Household Air Pollution : A Case Study in Rural Madagascar

Dasgupta, Susmita; Martin, Paul; Samad, Hussain A. - 2013

Household air pollution is the second leading cause of disease in Madagascar, where more than 99 percent of households … monitor household air pollution in two towns in Madagascar, with a stratified sample of 154 and 184 households. Concentrations …

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An Analysis of Physical and Monetary Losses of Environmental Health and Natural Resources in India

Mani, Muthukumara S.; Markandya, Anil; Sagar, Aarsi - 2013

This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene; and (iii) indoor air … pollution. It also provides estimates based on three natural resource damage categories: (i) agricultural damage from soil …

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Technological Learning, Energy Efficiency, and CO2 Emissions in China's Energy Intensive Industries

Rock, Michael T.; Toman, Michael A.; Cui, Yuanshang - 2013

Since the onset of economic reforms in 1978, China has been remarkably successful in reducing the carbon dioxide intensities of gross domestic product and industrial production. Most analysts correctly attribute the rapid decline in the carbon dioxide intensity of industrial production to rising...

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Atmospheric Stabilization of CO2 Emissions : Near-term Reductions and Intensity-based Targets

Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2012

This study analyzes CO2 emissions reduction targets for various countries and geopolitical regions by the year 2030 in order to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of CO2 at the level of 450 ppm (550 ppm including non CO2 greenhouse gases). It also determines CO2 intensity cuts that would be...

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