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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 ...
The use of role-play games in teaching: The International Climate Negotiation Game
(2016-04-13)
This paper presents a role-play game designed by the authors, which focuses on
international climate negotiations. The game has been used at a university with students all
drawn from the same course and at summer schools ...