Green economy reform - social inclusion and policy instrument support
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Briefing highlights
– Analyzing policy attitudes is important for understanding environmental policy feasibility.
– Pure self-interest is not sufficient to explain people’s policy positions. There are other factors that are also important for policy attitude formation.
– Policy packaging, earmarking and revenue recycling can potentially change people’s policy positions.
Carbon Taxes
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Economists argue that carbon taxation (and more generally carbon pricing) is the single most powerful way to combat climate change. Since this is so controversial, we need to explain it better, and to be precise, the efficiency gains are largest when the costs of abatement are strongly heterogeneous. This is often—but not always—the case. When it is not, standards can fill much the same role.
Metrics for environmental compensation: A comparative analysis of Swedish municipalities
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Environmental compensation (EC) aims at addressing environmental losses due to development projects and involves a need to compare development losses with compensation gains using relevant metrics. A conceptual procedure for computing no net loss is formulated and used as a point of departure for a comparative analysis of metrics used by five Swedish municipalities as a part of their EC implementation in the spatial planning context of detailed development plans.
Bioremediation Strategy Based on Risk Assessment of Exposure to Residual Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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In this study, application of risk assessment was the basis for the selection of an optimum treatment option for the potential bioremediation of a hydrocarbon polluted environment. This approach was applied in a hydrocarbon polluted swampy terrain in the Niger Delta of Nigeria and could actually be applied to any other hydrocarbon polluted environment.
Greening Markets: Market-Based Approaches for Environmental Management in Asia
This publication explains how market-based instruments can be utilized to improve air quality, water, and waste management in Asia.