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This paper constructs a stylized model of firm output and emissions that accounts for the two externalities that … characterize environmental markets when technological change is endogenous. The first externality concerns emissions, the external … return to innovation above the private return. We show that when firms can reduce emissions separately through both output …
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This honors thesis will examine current and theoretical "cap and trade" emissions trading schemes in an attempt to make …, the Kyoto Protocol, and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The political, social, and economic context of … committee to oversee the carbon allowance market in a theoretical U.S. emissions trading scheme. Its objective will be to: (1 …
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This research applies a divisia index decomposition for analysing the behaviour of carbon-dioxide emissions in the … branch-level data on value-added and carbon-dioxide emissions from fuel combustion. The literature on the environmental …
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warming impact and lowest cost of ownership in a varietyof emission legislation scenarios, emissions taxation policies, fiscal … emissions aswell as environment impact and operating economics. The TERA software is integratedwith a commercial optimiser and …
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The policy analysis and management implications for achieving landfillequilibrium status within a sustainable timescale (decades rather thancenturies) are presented based on modelled results reported previously. Untilrelatively recently, timescale estimates suggested that equilibrium or...
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quantitative analysis of the effects of these reforms on total emissions and fuel economy in three different states of the world …
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including inputs from other sectors, and that allows to analyse resource use and emissions, e.g. of greenhouse gases. Data … information is integrated and matrices of resource use and emissions for all agricultural production activities are generated. A … monetary allocation is used to identify the respective activities that are responsible for emissions, including indirect …
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as one of choosing a technology standard, or "cutoff," in emissions per unit of output, below which all abatement … regulator would like to raise the standard to reduce emissions but needs to lower it in order to induce technology adoption … too high or too low a standard is not only inefficient, but can also lead to an increase in total emissions relative to …
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This paper examines the current assignment of liability for in-use vehicle emissions and suggests some alternative …
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On November 8, 1996, various Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials, scholars and industry representatives gathered at Resources for the Future (RFF) to examine the EPA's method for classifying private SO2 allowance transactions by the Allowance Tracking System (ATS). The one-day...
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