FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ECONOMICS PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS HOMEWORK Nº 1 – ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS HOMEWORK GUIDELINES Individual Homework Assignments and Concept‐In‐Action Oral Presentation Please read through this whole page before you send anything: 1. If you have a reading assignment‚ read it. Do not go looking for answers only. 2. Please‚ inside the file‚ write at the top of the page the following information of your homework: date
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find new ways to differentiate them from other industries and thus increasing its competitiveness. The form of environmental regulation used includes eco-taxation‚ emissions trading and pollution charges (Brueckner 2010‚ 85). Eco-taxes are also known as green taxes. This form of policy has been introduced in various countries. Emission trading is a market-based scheme that enables the polluters
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Concepts of Sustainability 3. Case Study – Hong Kong (HK) 4. Basic Information 5. Main Reasons of Policies Chosen 6. Policy 1: Liquefied Petroleum Gas Taxi Scheme (Content and Policy Outcomes) 7. Policy 2: Emission Caps of Power Plants (Content and Policy Outcomes) 8. Case study – Singapore 9. Basic Information 10. Main Reasons of Policies Chosen 11. Policy 1: Electronic Road Pricing System (ERP) (Content and Policy Outcomes) 12.
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[Type the author name] | [The carbon tax] | Economics Assessment on the Carbon Tax. | The Carbon Tax - Economics The carbon tax will reduce emissions and have a positive effect on pollution minimisation. Nearly every news day we hear about the carbon tax. Many support it and many oppose it. Julia Gillard says it will cut emission whilst others just think it will drive up prices. The analysis undertaken by simulating the impact of a carbon tax of $23 a tonne reveals some interesting
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forces including variations in sunlight intensity‚ and more recently by human activities [2]. Most scientists agree that global temperatures could rise between 1.1 and 6.4°C above 1990 levels by the end of the 21st century‚ depending on future emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). If the rise is high‚ then changes are likely to be so extreme that it will be difficult to cope with them. There are likely to be more intense and frequent extreme
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PROBLEM? Christoph Böhringer a ‚ Knut Einar Rosendahl b and Jan Schneider c Abstract In the abscence of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions‚ individual countries have introduced national climate policies. Unilateral action involves the risk of relocating emissions to regions without climate regulations‚ i.e.‚ emission leakage. A major channel for leakage are price changes in the international oil market. Previous studies on leakage have assumed competitive behaviour in
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CRH at a glance / Corporate Social Responsibility Environment & Climate Change Environmental Protection is a CRH priority in all operations CRH is committed to the highest standards of environmental management in all its activities and is proactively addressing the challenges of climate change. This section describes the Group’s Environmental Policy and how it is implemented. It also describes how environmental performance is systematically reviewed and reported each year. CRH’s responses to
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critical currents Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Occasional Paper Series Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails no.7 November 2009 critical currents no.7 November 2009 Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Uppsala 2009 The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation pays tribute to the memory of the second Secretary General of the UN by searching for and examining workable alternatives for a socially and economically
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significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. It has been claimed that an Australian carbon tax will have no significant impact on the level of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. This claim has been made on two bases. Firstly that it is unlikely to succeed in significantly reducing Australian greenhouse gas emissions and secondly‚ that even if these emissions were to stop completely this would have no useful effect on world greenhouse gas emission rates. Critics of a carbon tax for Australia
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the effects of fuel efficiency improvements on four-wheeler ownership‚ fuel consumption‚ fuel imports and emissions for personal transportation in the context of India. The paper also aims to measure the rebound effect induced by this policy. Design/methodology/approach - The paper relies on a system dynamics model to analyse the problem. A causal loop model was developed initially‚ which was transformed to a stock and flow diagram
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