followed the Grenelle de l’environnement encompass policy measures in energy generation, manufacturing, transport, waste … management, construction and agriculture to encourage a transition towards a low-carbon economy. The government is committed to …

We study the incidence of carbon-reduction and green-energy promotion policies in an open fossil-fuel importing general … energy are shown to reduce also carbon emissions and vice versa. Their direct effects are stronger than their side effects …, the more so, the greater is the elasticity of substitution in consumption between en-ergy and the consumption good. We …

Many countries have adopted energy policies that promote biofuels as a substitute for gasoline in transportation. For … instance, more than 40% of U.S. grain is now used for energy and this share is expected to rise under the current Renewable … Fuels Mandate. This paper examines the distributional effects of this energy mandate on India using micro-level survey data …

development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location … and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy … plays must first boom and then bust. For both renewable and non-renewable energy sources we link the size of exploitation …

While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource … scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous … growth model that reconciles the current aggregate trends in energy use and productivity growth with the intertemporal …

The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon …