The Al Gore Effect: An Inconvenient Truth and Voluntary Carbon Offsets∗ [Job Market Paper] Grant Jacobsen University of California-Santa Barbara 2120 North Hall University of California Santa Barbara, 93106-9210 jacobsen@econ.ucsb.edu Phone: (717) 315-5503 Fax: (805) 893-8830 I thank Matthew Kotchen, Robert Deacon, Olivier Deschenes, and Charles Kolstad for helpful comments. I also thank participants at a UCSB seminar, the Western Economics International Association’s Conference
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interest,” notes Hoover. “The challenge, in any supplier relationship, is to understand what the other party’s interests are, so that you can help satisfy them. When you do that, they will be compelled to help satisfy yours.” A few years ago when HNI, a global office furniture manufacturer, started evaluating the potential cost benefits of sourcing in China, the company took an approach that utilized its decentralized business model called “split and focus.” However, while the model proved very effective
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management in a multidatabase sys- tem must ensure global serializability. Local seri- alizable execution is, by itself, not suficient to en- sum global serializability, since local serialisation or- ders of subtmnsactions of global transactions must be the same at all systems. In this paper a distributed tmnsaction management scheme is introduced. The scheme maintains autonomy of the local database systems. It is free from global deadlock, and, guar- antees fairness in the execution
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If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable. Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion, acid rains and the global warming that is believed to be coused by the greenhouse effect. The seas are in danger. They are filled with poison: industrial and nuclear waste, chemical fertilisers and pesticides. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following
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values for temperature and precipitation) for a given place and time of year, from one decade to the next. We know that the global climate is currently changing. The last decade of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st have been the warmest period in the entire global instrumental temperature record, starting in the mid-19th century. Climate change, also called global warming, refers to the rise in average surface temperatures on Earth. An overwhelming scientific consensus maintains that
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Running header: POLLUTION 1 POLLUTION: MORAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY VANESSA HARRISON HARVEY BUS330 PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING INSTRUCTOR: ANGELA MANLEY AUGUST 14, 2012 Running header: POLLUTION 1 “I do wonder whether there will come a time when we can no longer afford our wastefulness – chemical wastes in rivers, metal wastes everywhere, and atomic wastes buried deep in the earth or sunk in the sea.” – John Steinbeck Pollution is the action of environmental
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Organizational Changes in Ford Motor Company Organizational Changes in Ford Motor Company In today’s business world, one of the questions organizations are inquired about is “What can be done in order for our organization survive and expand?” Today’s society is evolving into something too challenging to easily foresee, with a numerous opportunities and drawbacks continuously passing. Economic modifications continue to change the very fundamental nature of how an organization is
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MKT01760 Tourism Planning Environments Assignment 2 – Proposal for preparation of a tourism plan or policy Due Date: Week 8 Position Statement “Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing tourism today. Australia’s tourism industry, like all sectors, contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. The industry is also susceptible to climate change impacts, with some of Australia’s most iconic natural attractions and World
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by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming". Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. A climate record — extending deep into the Earth's past — has been assembled, and continues to be built up, based on geological
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STUDENT NUMBER: 55993443 SEMESTER: 2 MODULE CODE: GGH1501 ASSIGNMENT NUMBER: 2 UNIQUE NUMBER: 879868 DUE DATE: 28 AUGUST 2014 TITLE 1: MAPS TITLE 2: CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE TITLE 1: 1 INTRODUCTION 1
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