a factor of production, such as energy, generates an environmental externality in the form of CO2 emissions which is not …

In addition to the already present Climate and Energy package, the European Union (EU) plans to include a binding … target to reduce energy consumption. We analyze the rationales the EU invokes to justify such an overlapping and develop a … renewable energy (RE) production and reducing energy demand through energy efficiency (EE) investments. We find that although …

implement an additional instrument encouraging the reduction of emissions, for instance a renewable energy subsidy. Our analysis …

of the bioelectricity sector will have to be based on biomass crops explicitly grown for energy purposes. The competition …

explicitly control for energy market liberalisation and take a potential interaction between liberalisation and policy … for the extent to which energy prices changed in favour of renewable energies, as well as foreign demand for wind turbines … innovations in the wind turbine technology when energy markets are fully open to competition. In contrast, non-price-based policy …

of the policy portfolio implemented by each country. We contribute to the study and scoring of environmental and energy … describe and compare policy portfolios across countries. We apply this methodology to the case of energy eciency policies in … applications of this approach, which are not confined to the realm of environmental and energy policy. …

and sustainable energy production. This Energy Investment Tax Allowance (EIA in Dutch) reduces up-front investment costs … revenues to subsidise investment in energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy is not very different from using on …Since 1997 the Netherlands has a tax allowance scheme introduced to promote investments in energy saving technologies …

precise representation of energy and technology choices with a coherent representation of the macro-economic impacts …, especially in terms of trade effects of climate policies on energy-intensive products. In climate mitigation scenarios, drastic … economy. Energy-intensive industries tend to be delocalized in regions where low-carbon production is feasible and cheap, or …

This paper investigates the relationship between energy intensity in the 12 countries of Eastern Europe that can be … capita income gap between developed and transition economies leads to a decrease in the energy intensity growth rate of a … that are allowed to vary across countries: ?, the elasticity of desired energy intensity with respect to the per capita …

&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with …