meet poverty alleviation targets, while reducing CO2 emissions. Our findings place global economists and environmentalists …

action, including setting higher targets for greenhouse gas reductions and expanding the emissions trading system.At the … summarizes the events of the Leaders Summit on Climate and the climate-related policies and pledges of summit attendees and other …

role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and … BRICS countries have developed in response to policies aiming at reducing fossil fuel use by providing financial incentives …

on the consumption of energy and, on the other on greenhouse gases emissions. Traditionally, energy security has been … technology. Investment in low-carbon energy sources for enhancing national energy policies prompts for a new understanding of …

The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical … distribution on consumptionbased CO2 emissions per capita. To do so, we estimate a dynamic difference-GMM model and a dynamic … analysis highlights how different income classes contribute very differently to consumption-based CO2 emissions. In addition …

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate … and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as the overall stringency of climate policies. We use dynamic panel … national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes …