Browsing NHH Brage by Author "Eskeland, Gunnar S."
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A literature review of the vulnerabilities to fraud in the EU ETS and the CDM : how does the environmental context affect fraud in the market?
Bieger, Bibiane (Master thesis, 2018)The Kyoto Protocol uses financial incentives to reach the environmental goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This environmental context facilitates certain frauds, namely scams, bribery and corruption and fraud ... -
Batteries in Offshore Support vessels - Pollution, climate impact and economics
Lindstad, Haakon Elizabeth; Eskeland, Gunnar S.; Rialland, Agathe (Discussion paper;21/16, Working paper, 2016-12-07)This paper assesses the pros and the cons of installing batteries on offshore support vessels. These vessels are specially designed to provide services to oil and gas operations, such as anchor handling, supply and subsea ... -
Carbon footprint - a luxury good : implications for a Norwegian tax proposal
Johnsen, Mathias Juell; Reinem, Petter Lindheim (Master thesis, 2016)Consumption-based emissions from international trade are substantial, but are not reported to the UNFCCC. In this master thesis, we have analysed the relationship between individual expenditure and the consumption-based ... -
Coal-to-gas switching in the power sector in Germany and the UK : assessment of key drivers and projection of future scenarios based on the EU ETS reforms
Gonzalez, Juan Jose Diaz (Master thesis, 2018)The power sector represents 30% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU). Market concentration and use of available technologies combined with a carbon price could trigger drastic GHG emission ... -
Effekten av elbilens inntog på bensinsalget i Norge : en empirisk studie fordelt på fylkene i Norge fra 2009 til 2016
Kloster, Hanna Sørenes; Krogedal, Katrine (Master thesis, 2018)I denne oppgaven undersøker vi hvorvidt elbilens inntog har medført en substitusjon bort fra bensinbiler og over til elbiler ved å se om dette kan vises i etterspørselen etter bensin. Ettersom Norge har den største andelen ... -
Green public procurement practices in Norway : the application of environmental criteria and the use of scoring rules in Norwegian road transport tenders
Fauske, Kristian Ringen; Schrader, Jelena (Master thesis, 2017)The goal of this thesis is to examine green public procurement (GPP) practices in Norway with a focus on road transport. In recent years, both in Norway and in the European Union there has been an increased focus on using ... -
Greening the Vehicle Fleet: Evidence from Norway’s CO2 Differentiated Registration Tax
Yan, Shiyu; Eskeland, Gunnar S. (Discussion paper;14/16, Working paper, 2016-08-31)Fiscal policies are used to improve vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector. Years of forceful reform in Norway may be seen as informative. From 2007, Norway has linked its new vehicle ... -
Indoor farming : fancy concept or environmental breakthrough? : economic analysis of a small scaled indoor farm producing iceberg lettuce in Bergen, Norway.
Keleş, Kadir (Master thesis, 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the concept of indoor farming from an economic perspective. In evaluation of the concept, the study aims to clarify whether current trends and applications of the concept do ... -
Leadership in Climate Policy: Is there a case for Early Unilateral Unconditional Emission Reductions?
Eskeland, Gunnar S. (Discussion paper;06/13, Working paper, 2013-06)One may misread economic theory on climate policy to provide a warning against unilateral mitigation. While important lessons are drawn from ‘global problems require global solutions’, these say little about what to do ... -
Missing in Action? Speed optimization and slow steaming in maritime shipping
Assmann, Lisa; Andersson, Jonas; Eskeland, Gunnar S. (Discussion paper;13/15, Working paper, 2015-03-12)This paper analyzes the claim, made by both academics and by industry insiders, that vessels speed up under conditions of high freight rates and low bunker prices. The rationale for the claim is that a ship should move ... -
Sulphur Abatement Globally in Maritime Shipping
Lindstad, Elizabeth; Rehn, Carl Fredrik; Eskeland, Gunnar S. (Discussion paper;8/17, Working paper, 2017-06-29)In 2016, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) decided on global regulations to reduce sulphur emissions to air from maritime shipping starting 2020. The regulation implies that ships can continue to use residual ... -
Taxing bads by taxing goods : essays on environmental protection under optimal taxation
Eskeland, Gunnar S. (Doctoral thesis, 2001) -
The European Union emissions trading scheme failure analysis and assessment of market stability reserve solution
Wach, Anna (Master thesis, 2016)The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is presented to be the cornerstone of European Union climate policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Implemented in 2008, it is the first, and still the biggest ... -
The Norwegian live fish carrier fleet: Is there a mismatch between capacity, utilization & investments?
Strand, Marius Skaar; Stovner, Sindre Flak (Master thesis, 2016)The Live Fish Carrier Industry is a specialized shipping segment in Norway, transporting and processing live salmon. The underlying driver for the segment is the production of salmon in aquaculture. With an absence of ... -
Trading for the future : signaling in permit markets
Harstad, Bård; Eskeland, Gunnar S. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-03) -
Økonomisk bærekraft i Nortura SA - det grønne skiftet : en casestudie av Nortura sin overgang til utslippsnøytral kjøtt og eggproduksjon
Finden, Oliver; Rugset, Jon-Vegar (Master thesis, 2018)Nortura SA er Norges ledende selskap innen kjøtt- og eggproduksjon. I et samfunn der mer kvalitetsbevisste forbrukere og større fokus på klimaproblematikk er en økende trend, er overgangen til en mer klimavennlig produksjon ...