Greening Markets
Title | Greening Markets PDF eBook |
Author | Asian Development Bank |
Publisher | Asian Development Bank |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2021-07-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9292629352 |
Asia has experienced massive economic growth, characterized by rapid urbanization and industrialization, changing demographics, and increasing consumption and demand for resources. This has contributed to significant environmental degradation. The challenge faced by governments in the region is in identifying and implementing innovative and dynamic policy approaches that are effective at improving environmental quality while sustaining development gains. This report reviews past and ongoing applications of market-based instruments to address air quality, water, and waste management in Asia. It provides recommendations for the use of market-based instruments for more efficient and effective environmental management.
Greening Markets: Market-based Approaches for Environmental Management in Asia
Title | Greening Markets: Market-based Approaches for Environmental Management in Asia PDF eBook |
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Release | 2021 |
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ISBN | 9789292629366 |
Greening the Global Economy
Title | Greening the Global Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Pollin |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2015-11-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0262322870 |
A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being. In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030. Achieving the target goals will be highly challenging. Yet in Greening the Global Economy, economist Robert Pollin shows that they are attainable through steady, large-scale investments—totaling about 1.5 percent of global GDP on an annual basis—in both energy efficiency and clean renewable energy sources. Not only that: Pollin argues that with the right investments, these efforts will expand employment and drive economic growth. Drawing on years of research, Pollin explores all aspects of the problem: how much energy will be needed in a range of industrialized and developing economies; what efficiency targets should be; and what kinds of industrial policy will maximize investment and support private and public partnerships in green growth so that a clean energy transformation can unfold without broad subsidies. All too frequently, inaction on climate change is blamed on its potential harm to the economy. Pollin shows greening the economy is not only possible but necessary: global economic growth depends on it.
Greening the Americas
Title | Greening the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780262541381 |
"Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented and discussed in the Spring of 2000 at a conference on lessons from the NAFTA for the FTAA"--Pref.
Greening China
Title | Greening China PDF eBook |
Author | Ka Zeng |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2011-08-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472027107 |
“The authors make some very critical interventions in this debate and scholars engaged in the environmental ‘pollution haven’ and ‘race to the bottom’ debates will need to take the arguments made here seriously, re-evaluating their own preferred theories to respond to the insightful theorizing and empirically rigorous testing that Zeng and Eastin present in the book.” —Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon China has earned a reputation for lax environmental standards that allegedly attract corporations more interested in profit than in moral responsibility and, consequently, further negate incentives to raise environmental standards. Surprisingly, Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin find that international economic integration with nation-states that have stringent environmental regulations facilitates the diffusion of corporate environmental norms and standards to Chinese provinces. At the same time, concerns about “green” tariffs imposed by importing countries encourage Chinese export-oriented firms to ratchet up their own environmental standards. The authors present systematic quantitative and qualitative analyses and data that not only demonstrate the ways in which external market pressure influences domestic environmental policy but also lend credence to arguments for the ameliorative effect of trade and foreign direct investment on the global environment.
Greening Trade Remedies
Title | Greening Trade Remedies PDF eBook |
Author | Pieter Van Vaerenbergh |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2023-09-28 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 3031381726 |
This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade. As trade remedies can pose a significant obstacle to environmental trade, this book outlines how trade negotiators can implement restrictions on the application of trade remedies on environmental goods. It also assesses whether and how investigating authorities can account for differences in environmental protection standards in trade remedy investigations and considers what a possible 'trade remedy' for environmental harm might look like. Although the book concludes that trade remedies will remain a trade instrument primarily driven by economic and competitiveness concerns, it demonstrates how environmental considerations can guide trade remedy policy, how investigating authorities can properly account for the environmental costs of production, and how the limited policy space available in the WTO Agreements on Trade Remedies can be used to pursue green policy goals.
Greening Trade and Investment
Title | Greening Trade and Investment PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Neumayer |
Publisher | Earthscan |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781853837883 |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.