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The Climate conference in ParisDecember 2015 is described as “last chance” or “5 to twelve” but in the climate arena there is a risk that we have over-utilized the doomsday vocabulary already in the…
13 October 2015 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenTop-down climate negotiations embodied by the Kyoto Protocol have all but stalled, chiefly because of disagreements over targets and objections to financial transfers. To avoid those problems, many…
27 November 2014 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenAlthough the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resources management issues in developing and developed economies…
25 April 2014 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenClimate change represents a serious threat to the economic growth potential in low income countries. Instead of investing in growth, they may be drawn into strife and conflict. Climate change and the…
14 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa, Sweden, Global HubTwenty years ago, governments gathered for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. The “Rio Declaration” laid out several principles of sustainable development…
1 June 2012 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenThis paper analyzes how fossil fuel-producing countries can counteract climate policy. We analyze the exhaustion of oil resources and the subsequent transition to a backstop technology as a strategic…
25 February 2012 | Peer Reviewed | China, SwedenThis paper analyzes differences in firms’ responsiveness to PROPER, Indonesia’s public disclosure program for industrial pollution control. The overall effectiveness of this program at achieving…
29 September 2009 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenThis article shows that fuel taxes serve a very important role for the environment and that we risk a backlash of increased emissions if they are abolished. Fuel taxes have restrained growth in fuel…
1 June 2007 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden
RFF Fellow Marc Hafstead and University Fellow Lawrence Goulder Receive Award for Best Paper
22 March 2022 | Peer Reviewed |