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Towards a green energy economy? Tracking the employment effects of low-carbon technologies in the European Union
(Elsevier, 2016-03-16)
In the view of pressing unemployment and environmental problems, different policies have been proposed to create jobs in the transition to a green economy, including the so-called “green jobs”. There has been an intense ...
Significant implications of permafrost thawing for climate change control
(Climatic Change, 2016-04-11)
Large amounts of carbon are stored as permafrost within the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. As permafrost thaws due to climate warming, carbon dioxide and methane are released. Recent studies indicate that the pool of carbon ...
From Shadow to Green: Linking Environmental Fiscal Reforms and the Informal Economy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-03-03)
In the past few decades many papers have analysed in some depth different environmental tax reforms and the double dividend hypothesis, i.e. the possibility of improving not only the environment but also the economy through ...
Environmental Fiscal Reform and Unemployment in Spain
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-04-02)
The theoretical literature relevant to the relationship between environmental taxation and employment creation is centred on the suggestion by Pearce (1991) that environmental taxation could lead to a “double dividend†...
Environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain in the presence of an informal sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10-26)
This policy briefing reports the results obtained in two recent papers (Markandya et al 2012 and Gonzalez-Eguino et al 2012) where the role of Enviromental Fiscal Reform (EFR) is revisited for the case of Spain. We analyse ...