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Who are the biggest employers in the world?

Posted by Empowering Editor on Sunday, April 15, 2012, In : Must read

The biggest employers in the world account for a vast percentage of global GDP. In some cases these organizations aggregate tremendous amounts of value to the local economy via Research and Development (R&D). In the chart below, the defense industry, energy corporations as well as retail and fast food industries are the clear winners...

What a few people realize is the amount of R&D and innovations fostered by these companies.

Equipments and solutions we often take for granted, such as cellu...
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Pricing carbon emissions in the context of international development

Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2010, In : News

Source: HARALD WINKLER*, ANDREW MARQUARD for Climate Policy, Volume 10, Number 5, 2010 , pp. 489-493(5)

Excerpt from the Editorial of Climate Policy

The Introduction has a very good example focusing on South Africa case. "Some developing countries are considering the option of using economic instruments as part of a broader policy of climate change mitigation. In South Africa, a carbon tax has been a very effective instrument for inducing relative emission reductions in the long-term mitigat...
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