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Climate Change & Greenhouse Gases
The New Green Business Model for Investment by Peter Fusaro
This paper examines the emerging markets for environmental financial investment and trading. It evaluates the role of venture capital funds, hedge fund investments, and private equity inv...
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The World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund and China by ZhongXiang Zhang
Since its inception, the World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)—the first global carbon fund—has engaged in a dialogue with China to have it join as a host country. This is because the...
From: ICEED
Carbon-Dioxide Embodiment in North American Trade (B. Shui & R. Harriss)
The quantification and allocation of responsibility for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) sources and sinks are essential to developing effective strategies for responding to the threat of...
From: ICEED
Green Trading: The Next Financial Market by Peter Fusaro
This paper summarizes the ongoing developments of the green trading markets for greenhouse gases, renewable energy credits, and the financial value of energy efficiency. It explores what...
From: ICEED
Doing Well Be Doing Good? Oil Industry Resonses to Kyoto by Michael C. Lynch
This article, written in 1999, assesses the oil industry’s responses to the Kyoto Protocol and the call for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The author presents the various str...
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Relational Characteristics of the Flexibility Mechanisms under the Kyoto Prot...
This paper uses a transaction cost framework to examine the implications of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper advocate...
From: ICEED
The Implications of Graduation: Why Developing Countries Will Never Produce M...
It is commonly stated that, in a few decades or less, developing countries will be producing more greenhouse gas emissions than developed nations. This is unlikely to be true, however, b...
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Evaluating the Impact of Carbon Taxes on the Electricity Supply Industry by S...
This paper investigates the impact of proposed carbon taxes on the electric power industry, using Greece as a case study. It adapts an economic-engineering model for electric generation ...
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The Chinese Energy System: Implications for Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions i...
This paper analyzes China’s energy resources and their development, national energy consumption patterns, the achievements and remaining problems of electricity generation, China’s energy...
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Carbon Emission Tax and Its Impact on a Developing Country Economy — A Case S...
Global climate change has become one of the most important of recent issues. It is estimated that roughly 60 percent of projected global climate change will be caused directly by the ene...
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