Assessing Voluntary Programs to Improve Environmental Quality

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the use of voluntaryapproaches (VAs) to environmental protection, which has spurned agrowing literature on the relative merits of voluntary vs. mandatoryapproaches. This paper draws on that literature to discuss both thetheoretical and empirical issues that arise in the evaluation orassessment of a particular VA. We consider both the environmentaleffectiveness and the efficiency of this policy approach. Our aim is toaid policymakers in evaluating a specific program or in thinking aboutthe use and design of a VA. We identify some key features that arelikely to increase both the effectiveness and the efficiency of VAs.     

垃圾焚烧发电项目邻近公众环境风险认知水平测量——以K市两个垃圾焚烧发电项目为例

运用AHP方法构建了包括环境风险知识、环境风险态度、环境风险行为意愿、环境风险行为4个一级指标、20个二级指标的公众环境风险认知评价指标体系,结合K市两个典型垃圾焚烧发电项目(W项目和D项目)的实地问卷调查,对项目周边3 km环境敏感区域内公众的环境风险认知水平进行了测量,调查结果显示,公众的年龄、性别、户口性质因素对环境风险认知具有显著影响,文化程度因素是制约公众环境风险认知的关键因素,因此,环境教育应成为提高公众环境风险认知最直接、最有效的途径。     

创新驱动下环境规制与长江经济带制造业转型关系研究

基于创新驱动下环境规制对制造业转型的作用机理,利用2005—2016年长江经济带11个省(市)的面板数据,实证研究创新驱动在环境规制与制造业转型关系中的中介效应。结果表明:环境规制对制造业转型的影响存在着基于创新驱动的双门槛效应,创新驱动处于不同的区间范围时,环境规制对制造业转型影响的方向和程度不同。因此,应当重视创新驱动与环境规制的协同作用,因地制宜地制定环境规制政策,同时通过合理配置固定资产、加大教育投入、引导财政支出投向、提高审外资准入门槛、引进先进技术等方式促进长江经济带制造业转型。     

Environmental Policy in Open Economies and Monopolistic Competition

This paper analyses the implications of international trade for non-cooperative environmental policy in the case of local production externalities. A particular focus is on the potential effects of regulations on the variety of goods and the resulting international spillover caused by trade. A tougher domestic standard negatively affects the utility of the households abroad, since such a policy reduces their variety of imports (due to fewer domestic product inventions) or their consumption of each imported brand (due to higher import prices). Ignoring the negative spillover, non-cooperative governments implement inefficiently strict standards in equilibrium. In contrast to this clear-cut inefficiency result, the impact of international trade on the state of the environment is ambiguous.     

山区工业化与山区环境协调发展研究──以浙江山区为例

根据发展经济学和环境经济学理论，研究山区工业化进程及其外部效果，剖析山区环境问题产生的机理和要素，探讨山区环境与经济协调发展的有效对策。     

城市国民经济和社会发展规划战略环境评价研究——以武汉市为例

城市国民经济和社会发展规划编制是否科学．会直接影响到城市其他规划的科学性，对城市未来的发展及生态环境状况影响重大。本文论述了对城市国民经济和社会发展规划开展战略环境评价的必要性和重要性．并结合（《武汉市国民经济和社会发展第十一个五年总体规划纲要》探讨了我国城市国民经济和社会发展规划战略环境评价的技术思路和技术方法。     

Exploring the dynamic spillover of cryptocurrency environmental attention across the commodities,green bonds,and environment-related stocks

We analyze the dynamic spillover impact of cryptocurrency environmental attention (ICEA) on three asset classes: commodities, green bonds (GBs), and environment-related stocks. Our wavelet-based analysis suggests that ICEA is sharply escalated after the first quarter of 2021. During this period of intense attention, only the soybean commodity and Solactive GB tend to move positively and negatively with ICEA, respectively. Accordingly, the clean energy, sustainability, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) stock indices are positively associated with ICEA during 2018–2019 at the medium frequency bands. In most periods and frequency domains, most commodities, GBs, and environment-related stocks are not strongly linked to ICEA. Moreover, Diebold and Yilmaz’s (2014) spillover estimations signify no strong spillover effect of ICEA on the asset classes considered in this study. These findings are further corroborated by the wavelet-based Granger causality analysis. Moreover, our quantile regression (QR) estimations suggest that most assets are adversely influenced by ICEA, depending on the market conditions. Our research conveys some novel and vital policy ramifications to both investors and policymakers.     

环境污染责任保险对企业债务融资成本的影响研究

在欧美发达经济体中,环境污染责任保险在实现经济与环境可持续发展中发挥着重要作用.环境污染责任保险在中国尚处于推广阶段,企业投保意愿不强,参保率较低,急需提高企业对环境污染责任保险的价值认同.环境污染责任保险是否具有资金融通效应,是企业主动接纳该类保险的重要驱动因素.为检验环境污染责任保险能否为企业带来资金融通的价值,文...     

Policy instruments for curbing CO2 emissions: The case of the Netherlands

Taxes may seem to be the most attractive instrument for curbing the emissions of carbon dioxide. This paper, however, argues that environmental taxes involve a number of serious complications — especially in an open economy riddled with market imperfections like the Netherlands. Therefore, a wide-ranging policy mix is called for. As far as households and sheltered sectors are concerned, regulation can continue to play a major role. Within the context of unilateral policies aimed at exposed sectors, the combination of subsidies and voluntary agreements may be more cost effective than the tax instrument.This paper was prepared for a conference on Energy Taxation in Europe organized by the Stichting voor Economisch Onderzoek (SEO) and held on December 13, 1991 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The author would like to thank Sijbren Cnossen, Jarig van Sinderen and one anonymous referee for helpful comments on an earlier draft.