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Global economic and environmental impacts of an ETR in Europe
Title: Global economic and environmental impacts of an ETR in Europe
Authors: Stefan Giljum, Christian Lutz and Christine Polzin
Year: 2011
In: Paul Ekins, Stefan Speck (Eds): Environmental Tax Reform (ETR). A Policy for Green Growth. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
Based on the scenario simulations undertaken in the petrE project, this chapter discusses the economic [...]
Europe’s Strategy for a Resource-Efficient future
[...]Succeeding the “Lisbon Strategy” which has been the EU’s main economic agenda for the past ten years, the new “Europe 2020” strategy was launched last year and is now being implemented on the national and European scale. While the “Lisbon Strategy” used to be exclusively growth oriented, the new strategy of economic development also takes
Available now: New SERI Working Paper: Resource Use and Resource Efficiency in Emerging Economies
Resource consumption in industrialized countries and its impacts on the planet are widely studied and discussed. A topic that has so far received far less attention is resource use and resource efficiency in the fast growing emerging economies, such as China, India and Brazil, that are shaping global trends.
SERI Working Paper 12 provides the [...]
Is the concept of green economy useful? SERI statements in “Natural Resources Forum”
Is the concept of a green economy a useful way of framing policy discussions and policymaking to promote sustainable development? SERI researchers Elke Pirgmaier and Christine Polzin [...] have addressed this question in form of short viewpoints in the February 2011 issue of “The Natural Resources Forum”, a quarterly journal issued by the United Nations Department
Arctic Footprint
The Arctic environment is affected in various ways by EU activities. As a first step towards reducing its environmental impacts, the EU has now analysed its footprint on the Arctic. Many experts from academia, government and civil society were welcomed in Brussels on November 18 to discuss the results of the project EU Arctic Footprint [...]
SERI supports visions for a One Planet Economy in Europe
SERI researchers Ines Omann and Christine Polzin were engaged as organisers and moderators in a Scenarios & Policy Analysis Workshop (Brussels, 8th -9th Sep 2010) for the One Planet Economy Network OPEN: EU project [...].
In the interactive workshop, roughly 45 participants from a wide range of institutions developed future scenarios which set out different
Global responsibility for CO2 emissions
[...]Which countries and regions are the biggest net importers and exporters of CO2 emissions embodied in trade? How much CO2 has been shifted between different regions through international trade? What are the implications of considering consumer responsibility for global climate and trade policies? Martin Bruckner, Christine Polzin and Stefan Giljum have addressed these questions in
