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Assessing the effectiveness of global air-pollution treaties on CO2emissions
- Source :
- WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment.
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- WIT Press, 2015.
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Abstract
- This paper considers the effect of international air-pollution agreements ratified since 1970 on carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), the main cause of anthropogenic climate change. The analysis is based on a panel dataset of 150 countries over the period 1970-2008. While the literature generally focuses on one particular agreement, we analyze the effect of the accumulation of agreements using a two-way (country, year) fixed effects regression model. We find that the relationship between the number of ratifications and CO2 emissions is statistically significant and linearly decreasing.
Details
- ISSN :
- 17433541 and 1746448X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........25ee2cf3d7c1c3dbc5ab58580fe29b64