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Verde, Stefano F.; Di Cosmo, Valeria - 2024

This paper proposes a dynamic carbon tax (DCT) that stabilises gasoline prices by adjusting inversely to crude oil prices. Compared to a standard fixed-rate carbon tax, the DCT can be expected to cut more CO2 emissions while receiving greater public support. Therefore, it could be a useful...

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An academic inquiry into flood risk adaptation strategies and the resilience of riverbank-dwelling families in major urban centers of the Zamboanga Peninsula Region, Philippines

Moreno, Frede; Sulasula, Josephine - 2024

This study explores flood risk adaptation strategies and the resilience of riverbank-dwelling families in major urban centers of the Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines. It examines the challenges these communities face in coping with recurrent flooding and identifies the factors that influence...

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Inclusive growth and climate change adaptation and mitigation in Australia and China : Removing barriers to solving wicked problems

Bell, William Paul; Zheng, Xuemei - 2018

-carbon policies and their implications for the Sino-Australian energy trade and sectors. This report results from the workshop …-and-control electricity sector. Chapter 4 discuses Australia’s poorly implemented neoliberal polices within its energy sector and provides an …. However, Australia’s uncoordinated energy and climate change policy and poorly implemented neoliberal policies in the energy …

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The Role of Electricity for the Decarbonization of the Portuguese Economy - DGEP Technical Report

Pereira, Alfredo; Pereira, Rui - 2017

electrification of energy demand and the production of electricity from renewable energy resources. Carbon and energy pricing policies … economy and an increase in the use of renewable energy resources in the production of electric power. In this work we provide …

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A Deposit-Refund System Applied to Nitrogen Emissions from Agriculture

Hansen, Lars Gårn - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to describe a nitrogen based deposit-refund system for regulating non-point nitrogen emissions from agriculture. We develop a formal model of a polluting production sector with substance content of inputs and outputs as an explicit quality dimension. Within this...

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Designing waste management systems to meet circular economy goals: The Italian case

Di Foggia, Giacomo; Beccarello, Massimo - 2021

.5%, resulting in a 13% reduction in mechanical-biological treatment. The waste-to-energy capacity would rise by 4.6% compared to the …

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Abatement costs of alternative tax systems to regulate agricultural nitrogen loss

Christensen, Jan; Hansen, Lars Gårn - 2005

Nitrogen emissions from agriculture are considered an important environmental problem in Denmark motivating consideration of different tax schemes as regulatory instruments. In this paper, input/output behaviour of Danish pig farmers is estimated with farm level panel data using the dual profit...

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Markets with tradable CO2 emission quotas: principles and practice

Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey - 1995

This paper reviews a range of issues relating to tradable carbon dioxide quotas. It considers the economic principles on which they are based, compares them with alternative carbon abatement policies, and reviews many aspects of how tradable quotas would be implemented in practice.

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Demand Shocks Change the Excess Burden From Carbon Taxes

Schaufele, Brandon - 2019

Two basic propositions underlying the economics of taxation -- that excess burdens increase in elasticities and tax rates -- are shown to cause the stringency of a Pigouvian tax to vary nonlinearly with output prices. This varying stringency of carbon taxation contributes to unfavorable...

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Fishing for litter: A cost-benefit analysis of how to abate ocean pollution

King, Peter - 2018

Marine plastics inflict annual damages of nearly $2bn on the marine economy. These damages may now be mitigated by a novel scheme that proposes to recover marine plastics. While a range of uses exist for recovered marine plastics; this research finds that none are profitable. While not...

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