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The environmental and macroeconomic effects of socially responsible investment

Dam, Lammertjan; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2008

We analyze the effects of socially responsible investment and public abatement on environmental quality and the economy in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as a renewable resource. Consumers can invest in...

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Optimal carbon tax with a dirty backstop: Oil, coal, or renewables?

van der Ploeg, Frederick; Withagen, Cees A. - 2011

substantially. Subsidizing renewables to just below the cost of coal does not affect the oil-only phase. The gain in green welfare …

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Too little oil, too much coal: Optimal carbon tax and when to phase in oil, coal and renewables

van der Ploeg, Frederick; Withagen, Cees A. - 2011

the following coal-only phase, and a flat carbon tax during the final renewables-only phase. The laissez-faire outcome … energy). Subsidizing renewables to just below the cost of coal does not affect the oil-only phase. The gain in green welfare … carbon tax a prohibitive coal tax leads to less oil left in situ and substantially delays introduction of renewables, but …

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Is there really a Green Paradox?

van der Ploeg, Frederick; Withagen, Cees - 2010

of renewables, stock-dependent oil extraction costs and convex climate damages. Weconcentrate on economies with an … plus scarcity rent and social cost of carbon) below thatof renewables. There are then two regimes. If the oil stock is … small, the social optimum path consists of aninitial oil-only phase followed by a renewables-only phase. With a lower cost …

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Corporate sustainability and performance : an efficiency perspective

Erbetta, Fabrizio; Bruno, Clementina; Pirovano, Carolina - In: Business strategy and the environment 32 (2023) 6, pp. 2649-2661

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An economic analysis of tidal energy to support sustainable development

Catalano, Matteo; D'Adamo, Idiano; Gastaldi, Massimo; … - In: World development sustainability 5 (2024), pp. 1-11

Decarbonization of the energy sector, requires a strong expansion of renewable energy, which combined with effective and efficient use of resources, enables the development of models based on the green economy. Tidal energy, which is currently underutilized, can contribute to this change by...

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