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regressions, controlling for macroeconomic factors such as economic development, GDP growth, urbanisation, as well as the energy …
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We analyze a repeated game in which countries are polluting as well as investing in technologies. While folk theorems point out that the first best can be sustained as a subgame-perfect equilibrium when the players are sufficiently patient, we derive the second best equilibrium when they are...
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We characterize the optimal policy and policy instruments for self-enforcing treaties when countries invest in green technology before they pollute. If the discount factor is too small to support the first best, then both emissions and investments will be larger than in the first best, when...
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for other sources of energy, and displacement of emissions from forests outside the EU. It also explores through scenario …) Cascade use - prevent first use of biomass for energy and (V) Strongly increase material wood use. The study presents detailed … sources of energy, and displacement of emissions from forests outside the EU. It also explores through scenario analysis …
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“Prices versus quantities” (Weitzman 1974), a hugely influential paper, is widely cited (and taught) in current debates about the best policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The paper’s criterion for ranking policies suggests that technological uncertainty favors taxes over cap and...
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"This book systematically analyses how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China's sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in...
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source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, accounting for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions. Continued … sharply declining costs for renewable energy sources, many countries still heavily rely on coal to meet their energy demand …. The predominance of coal can only be adequately understood in light of the political factors that determine energy policy …
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reliance on oil and gas exports and increasing debt burdens, and to plan for a timely and just energy transition that is …
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