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  • Summer time: things to do

    Maastricht is a typical student city: it’s deserted from all life in the summer. The remaining brave ones are almost only here to get some cash at a part-time job, study medicine and thus have to work shifts at the hospital or work at a company as in an intern.  This means life is less vibrant then...

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    Politieke Wetenschappen of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • law_mcel_master_working_paper_urgenda_case_and_applicability_of_the_charter_2019.pdf  (485.12 KB, PDF)
    … cap decreases each year by a linear reduction factor of 1.74% of the average total quantity of allowances issued annually in 2008-2012,22 cf. Art 9(1) of the EU ETS.23 Within the cap, companies in the concerned industries under the EU ETS receive or buy emission allowances. They can trade these allowances with other companies included in the scheme, cf. Art 12(1) of the EU ETS. Each year, in April, the companies must surrender enough allowances to cover all their emissions of the preceding … Under certain conditions, the Member States may transfer the part of their annual emission allocation that exceeds their greenhouse gas emissions for that year to other Member States, cf. Art 3(5) of the ESD. This means that a Member State can buy allowances to cover up a potential shortage. So, as can be seen, under both the EU ETS and the ESD, there are possibilities that allow for a certain flexibility when industries and Member States, respectively, are to fulfil their obligations under the schemes. For the EU ETS, the flexibility mechanism consists of a cap and trade system, and under the ESD there is a freedom for the Member States to buy, sell and store allowances as they see fit. 2.4 The possibility of further going action, cf. Art 193 TFEU Under Art 193 TFEU, the EU Member States are, for measures adopted under Art 192 TFEU, permitted to maintain or introduce more stringent …

  • De Bachelor Open Dag helpt bij je studiekeuze

    De open dag is een prima manier om je studiemogelijkheden aan de Universiteit Maastricht te verkennen. Het is een dag die je niet mag missen, alleen al vanwege de sfeer, zegt Charlotte, een van de tientallen UM-studenten die afgelopen zaterdag meehielpen om de Bachelor Open Dag tot een succes te...

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  • the_future_of_tobacco_stocks-_a_scenario_analysis_-_final_.pdf  (6.28 MB, PDF)
    … thank Arabesque Asset Management for having access to its S-Ray tool and data regarding Tobacco firms. Special thanks go to Cardano, a leading risk management firm based in the Netherlands, for supporting the creation of this document by hosting a workshop in Rotterdam on scenario thinking and scenario analysis for the entire team of authors of this report. Last but not least, we would like to thank the members of Tobacco Free Portfolios Working Group, for time and again providing input and feedback … threats, and thus can be seen as a key driver when looking at their revenue streams. The Future of Tobacco Stocks: A Scenario Analysis 16 16 1.4. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT 1.4.1. BOYCOTTS: GENERAL “A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social or political reasons” (Elliott, 2018). There is a growing trend among colleges and universities in the United States to opt to become smoke- or … on tobacco growth. The Telegraph. Retrieved from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/06/11/tax-hikes-emerging-markets-put- brake-tobacco-growth The Future of Tobacco Stocks: A Scenario Analysis 43 43 Blitz D., Fabozzi F., (2017). Sin Stocks Revisited: Resolving the Sin Stock Anomaly. The Journal of Portfolio Management. Fall 2017, 1-7. Bosely, S. (2017). Doctors urge Theresa May to publish anti-smoking strategy. The Guardian. Brandt, A. (2012). Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of …