Framework Convention on Climate Change

ライブラリー Annual Energy Outlook 2000

Impact of globalization, economic factors and energy consumption on CO2 emissions in Pakistan

An assessment of CCS costs, barriers and potential

Resource abundance, industrial structure, and regional carbon emissions efficiency in China

The EU’s Habitats and Birds Directives form the basis of efforts to conserve Europe’s biodiversity, with the implementation of a network of protected areas – Natura 2000 – lying at their heart. Implementation of Natura 2000 involves substantial capital investment and requires resources for on-going management and monitoring activities. The network can also deliver a variety of socio-economic benefits, resulting from a range of provisioning, regulating and cultural services, each of which supports human well being. While there is still a lack of quantitative and monetary data for the socio-economic benefits associated with Natura 2000, there is evidence that the benefits to society are larger than the costs of managing and investing in the network. This paper reviews evidence of the costs and benefits of Natura 2000 and makes the proposals regarding future work that would improve understanding of these at a local, regional, national and EU level.

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The costs and socio-economic benefits associated with the Natura 2000 network

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Climate change policy, innovation and growth

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/119774/1/778487547.pdf

Energy use policies and carbon pricing in the UK

Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Identification and Assessment

This report provides the results of an analysis of “intended nationally determined contributions”, or INDCs, that were submitted by more than 180 countries ahead of the Paris climate change summit in December 2015, focusing on the credibility, rather than the ambition, of pledges about future emissions. No G20 country is found to have ‘no credible basis’ for their INDC across the determinants explored in this analysis. However, there are significant differences in the level of and balance among the determinants of credibility for the individual countries. Notably, three broad groups of countries can be identified: ◾Countries with most of the determinants at a level ‘largely supportive’ to credibility; this includes the EU and its individual G20 members (France, Germany, Italy and the UK), as well as South Korea; ◾Countries with most of the determinants at least ‘moderately supportive’ to credibility, but displaying significant weakness in one of the determinants; this includes Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, South Africa and the US; ◾Countries that have scope to significantly increase their credibility across most determinants. These are Argentina, Canada, China, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

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Samuela Bassi

Papers

The costs and socio-economic benefits associated with the Natura 2000 network

Climate change policy, innovation and growth

Energy use policies and carbon pricing in the UK

Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Identification and Assessment

Beyond the targets: assessing the political credibility of pledges for the Paris Agreement