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The role of renewable energy in climate stabilization: results from the EMF27 scenarios

Luderer, Gunnar; Krey, Volker; Calvin, Katherine; … - HAL - 2014

This paper uses the EMF27 scenarios to explore the role of renewable energy (RE) in climate change mitigation. Currently RE supplies almost 20 % of global electricity demand. Almost all EMF27 mitigation scenarios show a strong increase in renewable power production, with a substantial ramp-up of...

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Models-as-Usual for Unusual Risks? On the Value of Catastrophic Climate Change

Bommier, Antoine; Lanz, Bruno; Zuber, Stéphane - HAL - 2014

We study the role of alternative intertemporal preference representations in a model of economic growth, stock pollutant and endogenous risk of catastrophic collapse. We contrast the traditional "discounted utility" model, which assumes risk neutrality with respect to intertemporal utility, with...

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Invention and transfer of climate change-mitigation technologies: A global analysis

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Hascic, Ivan - HAL - 2011

This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....

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Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of risk

Schumacher, Ingmar; Strobl, Eric - HAL - 2008

We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to … disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that face a low hazard of disasters are …, countries that face a high hazard of disasters are likely to experience first decreasing losses and then increasing ones with …

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Combining climate and energy policies : synergies or antagonism ? Modeling interactions with energy efficiency instruments

Lecuyer, Oskar; Bibas, Ruben - HAL - 2012

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 minimal common framework to study interactions arising from...

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Can Uncertainty Justify Overlapping Policy Instruments to Mitigate Emissions ?

Lecuyer, Oskar; Quirion, Philippe - HAL - 2012

This article constitutes a new contribution to the analysis of overlapping instruments to cover the same emission sources. Using both an analytical and a numerical model, we show that when the risk that the CO2 price drops to zero and the political unavailability of a CO2 tax (at least in the...

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The design of the Internal Energy Market in relation energy supply security and climate change

Rious, Vincent - HAL - 2009

The Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP), the Loyola de Palacio Chair on EU Energy Policy of the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies (European University Institute), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Wilton Park Conferences (WPC) organize a four-tier program for...

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Economic Potential of Renewable Energy in Vietnam's Power Sector

Nguyen, Nhan Thanh; Ha-Duong, Minh - HAL - 2009

A bottom-up Integrated Resource Planning model is used to examine the economic potential of renewable energy in Vietnam's power sector. In a baseline scenario without renewables, coal provides 44% of electricity generated from 2010 to 2030. The use of renewables could reduce that figure to 39%,...

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The development and commercialization of solar pv technology in the oil industry

Pinkse, Jonatan; Buuse, Daniel Van Den - HAL - 2012

In diversifying energy supply, the transformation of the energy industry has been identified as a key challenge for a sustainable energy future. This suggests that incumbent firms in this industry have a vital role in the development and commercialization process of renewable energy...

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White Knights: Will wind and solar come to the rescue of a looming capacity gap from nuclear phase-out or slow CCS start-up?

Griffin, Bradford; Buisson, Pierre; Criqui, Patrick; … - HAL - 2014

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident, countries like Germany and Japan have planned a phase-out of nuclear generation. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has yet to become a commercially viable technology with little prospect of doing so without strong climate policy to spur...

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