Showing 1 - 10 of 450
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560097
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559502
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559803
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557101
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560414
emissions and indoor air pollution. Creating local networks among stove users generally appears to increase fuelwood savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571801
Large and energy-intensive infrastructure investments with long life times have substantial implications for climate policy. This study focuses on options to scale down energy consumption and carbon emissions now and in the future, and on the costs of doing so. Two ways carbon emissions can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572446
This paper examines the effect of energy costs on industry export competitiveness. Most studies in the literature use direct energy consumption (energy consumption at the final stage of production) and domestic energy prices to compute energy costs faced by domestic industries. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012570259
Energy-intensive infrastructure may tie up fossil energy use and carbon emissions for a long time after investments, making the structure of such investments crucial for society. Much or most of the resulting carbon emissions can often be eliminated later, through a costly retrofit. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559462