Nuclear energy remains a controversial issue for public policies on energy and the environment because of arguments concerning radioactive waste, reactor accidents, nuclear proliferation and economic competitiveness. The issues of climate change and supply security have provided a new rationale...

This paper briefly describes difficulties in implementing the principles of sustainable development in new EU member states and discusses the opportunities and threats involved. It gives recommendations for environmental protection and energy policies consequent on these sustainable development...

This paper discusses whether recent energy trends are compatible with the requirements of sustainable development. For this purpose, using decomposition analysis, we derive a few long-term sustainability conditions for the energy system and examine whether they are satisfied on the basis of the...

China is the largest developing country and the second largest energy-consuming and CO<SUB align="right"><SMALL>2</SMALL></SUB>-emitting country in the world. China has already regarded renewable energy development and utilisation as a critical element of their sustainable energy strategy. In this context, China's renewable energy...</small></sub>

Global warming is a universal problem nowadays. The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was partially successful because all participating countries realised the damages caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and promise to mitigate in the future course of time. India...