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We assess the subsidy for the installation of biomass boilers and wood gasification boilers under the Greener Homes Scheme in Ireland. We find that the (implicit) subsidy per tonne of carbon dioxide avoided varies hugely across households. The current policy costs 17% too much for the emissions...
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Voluntary environmental management programs for firms have become an increasingly popular instrument of environmental policy. However, the literature's conclusion on the effectiveness of suchprograms is ambiguous, and for the European region there is a lack of evidence based on a large control...
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CO2 emissions mandates for new light-duty passenger vehicles have recently been adopted in the European Union (EU …. Tightening CO2 standards further after 2021 would cost the EU economy an additional €24-63 billion in 2025 compared with an …
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We use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the EU-US Open Skies … into the EU and corresponding CO2 emissions. We find that passenger numbers arriving from the US to the EU will increase by … number of tourist arrivals from the US to countries outside of the EU will fall and overall emissions would then increase by …
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Carbon dioxide emissions are a major force driving climate change. We construct scenarios of CO2 emissions from fossil energy until 2100 in Europe. Major innovations are first that economic growth is based on an endogenous economic growth model and second that we calibrate our model to...
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Implementation of an EU-wide emissions trading system by means of National Allocation Plans is at the core of the … European environmental policy agenda. EU Member States must allocate their national emission budgets under the EU Burden …-based interactive simulation model in order to specify and evaluate alternative settings of the EU emissions trading system …
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Implementation of an EU-wide emissions trading system by means of National Allocation Plans is at the core of European … environmental policy agenda. Member States are faced with the problem of allocating their national emission budgets under the EU … EU emissions trading system and the gains for each Member State vis-a-vis domestic abatement policies. We present an …
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the EU. There is meanwhile a large quantitative literature on the economic effects of full integration of the associated … countries into the EU as well as on the Kyoto Protocol. However, there is a lack of quantitative research on the linkage of … trade and the environment in the context of the EU enlargement. In this paper we analyze the interactions of different …
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