Unemployment effects of climate policy

This paper models the unemployment effects of restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, embodying two of the most significant types of short-term economic imperfections that generate unemployment: sectoral rigidities in labor mobility and sectoral rigidities in wage adjustments. A labor policy is also analyzed that would reduce the direct negative economic effects of the emissions restrictions.The politics of limiting greenhouse gas emissions are often dominated by relatively short-term considerations. Yet the current economic modeling of emissions limitations does not embody economic features that are likely to be particularly important in the short term, in particular, the politically sensitive unemployment rate. Moreover, only a few of these studies also consider policies that would offset the negative direct economic effects of emissions restrictions. For plausible estimates of the parameters, the model shows that, with the labor market imperfections, if there were no offsetting policies, the reductions in GNP in the U.S. in the first 10 years after emissions restrictions were imposed would be as much as 4%. However, if there were two policies, instead of just one: a counteracting labor market policy, as well as the emissions restrictions, the negative direct economic effects could be completely eliminated.     

从影视拍摄破坏环境看我国环评制度的不足

影视剧组被指景区环境事件凸显我国相关法律制度尤其是环境影响评价制度的缺失。文章在考察国外和我国环评制度的演变，分析我国影视拍摄活动破坏环境所折射出的环评法缺失的基础上，指出完善环评制度应纳入法规、政策环评，补充对社会人文活动的环评，明确法律责任，以及确立真实有效的公众参与制度及建立环境公益诉讼。     

"马房窝矿区环境污染事件"整顿见成果

2005年5月24日，国务院副总理曾培炎在四川省人民政府“关于广元市朝天区马房窝金矿污染问题调查情况的报告”上批示：环保总局要加强这方面典型经验的总结宣传，同时也要对执法不力的案件予以通报，促进各地环保工作依法有序进行。曾培炎的批示。是对广元市马房窝矿区整顿成果的充分肯定，同时也为历时半年、在全国产生重大影响的“马房窝矿区环境污染事件”的查处画上了一个阶段性的句号。[编者按]