Although the economic effects of CO2 abatement depend substantially on the degree to which capital and labor can substitute for energy, the issue of energy-capital-labor substitution is surrounded by considerable uncertainty. In this article we use econometrically estimated, sectorally differentiated elasticities of substitution for Germany to shed some light on this issue. The elasticity estim...

Carbon dioxide is produced as a by-product of cellular respiration by all aerobic organisms and thus serves for many animals as an important indicator of food, mates, and predators. However, whether free-living terrestrial nematodes such as Caenorhabditis elegans respond to CO2 was unclear. We have demonstrated that adult C. elegans display an acute avoidance response upon exposure to CO2 that ...

* Corresponding author. School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, 5200 N. Lake Rd., Merced, CA 95348, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ** University of New South Wales, Australian School of Business, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Inducing Clean Technology in the Electricity Sector: Tradable Permits ...

As it has an export-oriented economy, Taiwan urgently needs to keep up with the growing trends toward carbon taxation. However, making institution of a tax reality in proven be difficult. Since 1998, explored possibility putting on many times. Specifically, three main windows opportunity emerged adopt during this period; however, all them failed. This study mainly explores why these opportuniti...

The release of dangerous contaminants to the atmosphere due to human activities is an extensively discussed issue (Oelkers & Cole 2008). The economic development often underestimated the consequences of a massive release of substances into the environment. Politic tried to introduce some regulation but in the case of CO2 emissions, the introduction of the “Carbon Tax” and the other attempts wer...

The dissertation focuses on the study of environmental policies and their impacts on the power systems’ planning. It consists of three parts, each of which addresses a single problem on environmental policies and generation expansion planning. In the first part of the dissertation, I compared the capand-trade policy and various carbon tax policies in a single period under the generation expansi...

Numerous proposals have surfaced promoting policies to limit U.S. emissions of gases like Carbon Dioxide (CO2), a primary contributor to climate change. One such proposal is Senate Bill 2191, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which was introduced to the 110th Congress on October 18, 2007. Like many proposals to control greenhouse gas emissions, S. 2191 embraces a market-based approach ...

In this paper, we consider carbon tax and emissions trading as the national policy against the global warming problem. The attitude of the United States, whether they join the international carbon dioxide emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol or not, will bring a large influence on the global environment and the emissions trading. Therefore, we evaluate the influence on the revenue, the pr...

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