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Which economic model for a water-efficient Europe? Report of a CEPS Task Force. CEPS Task Force Report, 27 November 2012 [PDF]

, 2012
This CEPS Task Force Report focuses on how to improve water efficiency in Europe, notably in public supply, households, agriculture, energy and manufacturing as well as across sectors.
Alessi, Monica, Egenhofer, Christian., Núñez Ferrer, Jorge, Teusch, Jonas   +3 more
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Reaching economic leakage level through pressure management

Water Supply, 2015
High non-revenue water (NRW) values as a percentage of system input volume form a serious problem that many water utilities worldwide have to confront nowadays. There are ways to mitigate the effect by adopting strategies with short- and long-term results.
V. Kanakoudis, K. Gonelas
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Cooperative and non-cooperative solutions to carbon leakage [PDF]

A modified version of the CGE GTAP-E model is developed for assessing the economic and carbon emissions effects related to alternative policy measures implemented with the aim of reducing carbon leakage. We explore a set of scenarios, comparing solutions
Alessandro Antimiani, Chiara Martini, Luca Salvatici, Valeria Costantini   +3 more
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Biophysical suitability, economic pressure and land-cover change: a global probabilistic approach and insights for REDD+ [PDF]

, 2013
There has been a concerted effort by the international scientific community to understand the multiple causes and patterns of land-cover change to support sustainable land management.
A Mather, Agnieszka E. Latawiec, Alvaro Iribarrem, Andrew Lovett, Anna Creed, AS Ruesch, B Strassburg, BBN Strassburg, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, BS Soares, D Tilman, D Tilman, E Lepers, EF Lambin, EF Lambin, Felipe Cronenberger, Gilla Sunnenberg, GL Galford, HK Gibbs, International Union for Conservation of Nature, United Nations Environment Programme, JA Foley, JA Foley, JEM Baillie, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, KK Goldewijk, KK Goldewijk, KM Chomitz, KP Overmars, L Miles, Lera Miles, LN Joppa, Lucas Joppa, MK Ittersum van, MW Rosegrant, N Ramankutty, N Stephenne, NC Goldstein, Nga Nguyen, P Smith, PH Verburg, PH Verburg, R DeFries, Ralph Ashton, RG Pontius, RM Ewers, RM Ewers, RR Rindfuss, S Fritz, SW Trimble, TK Rudel, TK Rudel, TP Evans   +51 more
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Innovation barriers for small biotech, ICT and clean tech firms:Coping with knowledge leakage and legitimacy deficits [PDF]

Innovative high-tech small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are thought to be drivers of economic renewal and growth. However, due to their limited size, SMEs face two fundamental innovation barriers: the risk that other organizations appropriate the ...
Andrea Herrmann, F. Stam, Marko Hekkert, Neil Thompson   +3 more
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A globally relevant data-driven assessment of carbon leakage from forestry

Environmental Research Letters
Climate smart forestry (CSF) practices are widely recognized as efficient natural climate solutions. However, leakage accounting for these practices often relies on limited analysis and ad hoc reasoning, leading to integrity concerns and underinvestment ...
Adam Daigneault, Brent Sohngen, Ethan Belair, Peter W Ellis   +3 more
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Changing the Allocation Rules in the EU ETS: Impact on Competitiveness and Economic Efficiency [PDF]

We assess five proposals for the future of the EU greenhouse gas Emission Trading Scheme (ETS): pure grandfathering allocation of emission allowances (GF), output-based allocation (OB), auctioning (AU), auctioning with border adjustments (AU-BA), and ...
Damien Demailly, Philippe Quirion
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Think Globally, Act Globally: The Limits of Local Climate Policies [PDF]

, 2007
State-level actions to address global climate change, such as laws and litigation recently undertaken by California and by several Northeastern states to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reflect creative legal strategies understandably intended to ...
Wiener, Jonathan B.
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Application of Mechanical Nitrogen Filling Foam Cementing Technique in Shale Gas Wells

Shiyou jixie, 2022
Shale gas wells under complex conditions are faced with some cementing problems such as lost of circulation, low displacement efficiency and poor sealing effect.
Kuang Lixin, Liu Kui, Ding Shidong, Chu Yongtao, Zhou Shiming, Jiang Zhenghua, Xiao Jingnan   +6 more
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Carbon Leakage in the EU in the Light of the Paris Climate Agreement

Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 2015
Despite the recent adoption of the Paris climate agreement, countries taking climate change action are still faced with a potential risk of carbon leakage due to the absence of a uniform carbon price at the global level.
Melita Carević
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