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Interconnections within food, biofuel, and fossil fuel markets

Chrz, Stepan; Hruby, Zdenek; Janda, Karel; Kristoufek, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The interconnections within food, biofuel and fossil fuel markets are first described in the context of biofuels … markets, we do not obtain a persuasive confirmation of the thesis that biofuels clearly lead to food shortages via the … increase in prices of basic food commodities used in the production of biofuels. …

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Solar PV rural electrification and energy-poverty: A review and conceptual framework with reference to Ghana

Obeng, George Yaw; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In spite of the intention of governments to increase the use of renewable energy in electricity supply, particularly the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is relatively little information on how solar PV electrification...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059114

Greenhouse gas emissions and the energy system: decomposition analysis and the environmental Kuznets curve

Borghesi, Simone; Vercelli, Alessandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper discusses to what extent the recent trends in energy consumption and production are compatible with the requirements of sustainable development. For this purpose, starting from a simple identity applied to the energy sector, we use the decomposition analysis to derive a few analytical...

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Taxing CO2 and subsidising biomass. Analysed in a macroeconomic and sectoral model

Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

This paper analyses the combination of taxes and subsidies as an instrument to ensure a reduction of CO2 emission. The objective of the study is to compare recycling of a CO2 tax revenue as a subsidy to biomass use as opposed to traditional recycling like reduced income or corporate taxation. A...

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Empirical relationship between charcoal production and the social cost of carbon emissions.

Ackah, Ishmael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

There have been increased attention on how man’s activities affect the environment negatively especially in developed countries. However, there are countless number of activities such as charcoal production and electricity generation from oil in developing countries that have potential carbon...

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The environmental Kuznets curve, economic growth, renewable and non-renewable energy, and trade in Tunisia

Ben Jebli, Mehdi; Ben Youssef, Slim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

We use the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach for cointegration with structural breaks and the vector error correction model (VECM) Granger causality approach in order to investigate relationships between per capita CO2 emissions, GDP, renewable and non-renewable...

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The environmental Kuznets curve, economic growth, renewable and non-renewable energy, and trade in Tunisia

Ben Jebli, Mehdi; Ben Youssef, Slim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We use the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds approach to cointegration in order to investigate the short and long-run relationship between per capita CO2 emission, GDP, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and trade openness for Tunisia during the period 1980-2009. The...

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The dynamic interaction between combustible renewables and waste consumption and international tourism: The case of Tunisia

Ben Jebli, Mehdi; Ben Youssef, Slim; Apergis, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper employs the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds methodological approach to investigate the relationship between economic growth, combustible renewables and waste consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and international tourism for the case of Tunisia spanning the period...

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An analysis of long-term scenarios for the transition to renewable energy in Greece

Halkos, George; Kevork, Ilias; Galani, Georgia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study is focused on the construction of long – term scenarios for the transition to renewable energy. Utilizing European and national targets, the key objective of this work is to investigate how these targets are reflected in both economic and environmental terms. The constructed model...

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Discounting, Distribution and Disaggregation

Yamaguchi, Rintaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of the rich and the poor, a standard setting in the literature of cost-benefit analysis with distributional considerations. We derive several discount rates for different...

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