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This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
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innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
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Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …
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investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …
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and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate …. -- climate policy ; innovation ; human capital …
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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phase-out of ozone-depleting substances. I show that the protocol increased science and innovation on alternatives to ozone … readily available. I reconcile theory and empirics by discussing the role of induced innovation in models of environmental …
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Integrated assessment models (IAMs) provide key inputs to decision-makers on economically efficient climate policies, and technical change is one of the key assumptions in any IAM that estimates mitigation costs. We conduct a systematic survey of how technical change is currently represented in...
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