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China's pursuit of environmentally sustainable development : harnessing the new engine of technological innovation

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016

Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and global environmental governance. Building on a...

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Threshold policy effects and directed technical change in energy innovation

Nesta, Lionel; Verdolini, Elena; Vona, Francesco - 2018

This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over the period 1990-2012. Our novelty is to use threshold regression models to allow for discontinuities in policy effectiveness depending on a country's relative competencies in...

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Policies and practices of low carbon city development in China

Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the...

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Environmental performance and regional innovation spillovers

Costantini, Valeria; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2010

The achievement of positive environmental performance at national level could strongly depend on differences in local …, innovation spillovers and regional policies in shaping the geographical distribution of environmental performance achievements …. -- Environmental Performance ; Technological Innovation ; Regional Spillovers ; Polluting Emissions ; Italian Regions …

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Improving the energy-efficiency of buildings : the impact of environmental policy on technological innovation

Noailly, Joëlle - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of alternative environmental policy instruments on technological innovations aiming to improve energy-efficiency in buildings. The empirical analysis focuses on three main types of policy instruments, namely regulatory energy standards in buildings codes,...

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The SO2 allowance trading system and the clean air act amendments of 1990 : reflections on twenty years of policy innovation

Chan, Gabriel; Stavins, Robert N.; Stowe, Robert; … - 2012

, investigates critically the design, enactment, implementation, performance, and implications of this path-breaking application of …

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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012

This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....

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Environmental regulations, market structure and technological progress in renewable energy technology : a panel data study on wind turbines

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Weiss, Pia - 2011

We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We explicitly control for energy market liberalisation and take a potential interaction between liberalisation and policy instruments into account. We find a strong and highly...

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The clean energy R&D strategy for 2°C

Marangoni, Giacomo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013

This paper uses an integrated assessment model to quantify the climate R&D investment strategy for a variety of scenarios fully consistent with 2°C. We estimate the total climate R&D investment needs in approximately 1 USD Trillion cumulatively in the period 2010-2030, and 1.6 USD Trillions in...

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Clean and dirty international technology diffusion

Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - 2013

This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...

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