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Applying environmental economics in Africa
In: World Bank technical paper 277
In: Africa Technical Department series
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Carbon-reducing innovation as the essential policy frontier – towards finding the ways that work
In: Environment and development economics, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 261-280
ISSN: 1469-4395
AbstractFinding the ways that work to deliver the innovation needed should be given parity of esteem with getting the prices right as a focus of the economics profession and policy systems. Learn from experience as regards carbon pricing and carbon-reducing innovation; insights from the latter coming mainly from the US, China and Europe; demographically relatively small countries – Denmark (wind) and Australia (solar PV) – can make outsize contributions. A carbon price ceiling is too low to drive innovation; generating carbon-reducing innovation requires that it be explicitly recognized as a priority, and nurtured accordingly: identify the priority area(s) where innovation at scale will be necessary to make progress; baseline the elements of the innovation ecosystem which are already in place, and the gaps that need to be filled. Key elements include institutions and incentives that promote innovation, a research and enterprise community that make it happen, and a supportive public.
From Theory to Practice—What It Takes to Achieve Implementation of Market-Based Instruments for Environmental Policy
In: Political Economy and Instruments of Environmental Politics, S. 11-28
Impacts of EU ETS
In: Climate policy, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 322-323
ISSN: 1752-7457
Origins and Development of the EU ETS
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 391-412
ISSN: 1573-1502
Making a difference — how environmental economists can influence the policy process — a case study of David W Pearce
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 7-32
ISSN: 1573-1502
Northern Ireland: Environment and natural resources
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 86-87
ISSN: 0264-8377
Privatisation: issues of principle and implementation in Ireland
In: Business and economics research series
European climate change policy assessed, with particular focus on the European Union emissions trading scheme: evolution and key features to 2020
In: ESRI discussion paper series 230
An investigation into waste charges in Ireland, with emphasis on public acceptability
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 28, Heft 12, S. 2826-2834
ISSN: 1879-2456
An investigation into waste charges in Ireland, with emphasis on public acceptability
There are 34 local authorities in Ireland with legal responsibility to deal with waste arising in their jurisdictions. In 2003 the National government introduced legislation that allows local authorities to recover the costs of waste collection and disposal, and to do so by 'executive function', i.e., not requiring support or agreement by the relevant local political representatives. The year 2005 was set as the date by which implementation of a pay by weight or volume was to be introduced. The local authorities were given autonomy as to how they addressed this challenge, so we have – in theory – 34 potentially different experiences from which to learn. This paper examines the pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) waste system in Ireland as it develops in line with EU and National demands, with a view to assessing economic and environmental efficiency. All local authorities were surveyed and thirteen responded. While this only represents about 38% of the total number, it includes jurisdictions that contribute in total more than 50% of waste arising. Key figures in the policy and business community were also interviewed in order to identify how the charging schemes were implemented, and to what effect. These insights and parallel investigations are used to review the potential for problems regarding public acceptability of environmental taxes and examine the evidence for economic and environmental efficiency, as well as problem areas, using data from each of the responding local authority jurisdictions. Concentrating on the incentives and drivers across households, municipalities and private waste contractors, the variations in charging system, annual charges and landfill charges are compared where information was available. The various jurisdictions are also examined in terms of relative successes and problems encountered in the transition from fixed charge or free waste collection to PAYT systems. The Irish situation is placed in the context of the international literature on PAYT, the growing waste crisis, environmental attitudes vs. behaviours, and the acceptability of environmental taxes generally.
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Pricing carbon: the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
"The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trading schemes in the US, Japan, and elsewhere. However, as is true of any pioneering public policy experiment, this scheme has generated much controversy. Pricing Carbon provides the first detailed description and analysis of the EU ETS, focusing on the first 'trial' period of the scheme (2005-7). Written by an international team of experts, it allows readers to get behind the headlines and come to a better understanding of what was done and what happened based on a dispassionate, empirically based review of the evidence. This book should be read by anyone who wants to know what happens when emissions are capped, traded, and priced"--Provided by publisher