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Lessons from 15 Years of Experience with the Dutch Tax Allowance for Energy Investments for Firms

Ruijs, Arjan; Vollebergh, Herman - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

and sustainable energy production. This Energy Investment Tax Allowance (EIA in Dutch) reduces up-front investment costs … deduct some of the investment costs from their taxable profits. The EIA may also reduce search costs by investors to find … revenues to subsidise investment in energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy is not very different from using on …

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Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: The Case of Carbon Trading in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Putting a price on carbon is considered a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China’s grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and low-carbon cities in six provinces and thirty-six...

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Climate Agreements and Technology Policy

Hoel, Michael; Golombek, Rolf - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We study climate policy when there are technology spillovers within and across countries, and the technology externalities within each country are corrected through a domestic subsidy of R&D investments. We compare the properties of international climate agreements when the inter-country...

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Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy: The Electricity Market

Hirth, Lion; Ueckerdt, Falko - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Energy and climate policies are usually seen as measures to internalize externalities. However, as a side effect, these policies redistribute wealth between consumers and producers, and within these groups. While redistribution is seldom the focus of the academic literature in energy economics,...

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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China’s efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety...

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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks

Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and …

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Climate Policy under Technology Spillovers

Golombek, Rolf; Hoel, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Technological development is likely to play an important role in curbing growth in greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore important to incorporate factors influencing technological change in climate policy analyses. This paper studies climate policy when there are technology spillovers...

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Effective Environmental Protection in the Context of Government Decentralization

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...

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Energy Prices, Subsidies and Resource Tax Reform in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign the market a decisive role in allocating...

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Impact of Revised CO2 Growth Projections for China on Global Stabilization Goals

Blanford, Geoffrey J.; Richels, Richard G.; Rutherford, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Recent growth in carbon dioxide emissions from China’s energy sector has exceeded expectations. In a major US government study of future emissions released in 2007 (1), participating models appear to have substantially underestimated the near-term rate of increase in China’s emissions. We...

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