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source of global carbon dioxide emissions is deforestation, which accounts for up to eighteen percent of global carbon … mechanism to credit efforts to curb tropical deforestation. Part II evaluates four potential impediments to crediting efforts to … curb deforestation: additionality, leakage, permanence, and monitoring. Part III discusses the compensated reductions plan …
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Forest Enhancement (REDD ) has become a central focus …
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The efficiency effects of carbon pricing depend on how it impacts distortions in fossil fuel markets, most notably from local air pollution externalities. By offsetting these distortions, carbon pricing may generate significant net economic benefits, so it is in countries own interests to...
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pollution depends on its share of world capital. The authors show that, if the disutility of pollution in the United States is …
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on its share of world capital. We show that, if the disutility of pollution in the United States is high, there will be …
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We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...
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and subsidiaries of the world's biggest manufacturing, energy, and utility companies. Our results suggest that financial …
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