produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China’s energy mix, as Beijing … strives to decrease reliance on imported oil and coal, while attempting to meet growing energy demand and maintain a certain … level of resource autonomy. The development of the unconventional natural gas extractive industry will also endow China with …

This paper describes the energy sector in the Mediterranean and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries. It first … analyses the production of energy by fossil and renewable sources and discusses the increasing demand in the area and its … consequences. It describes the policy frameworks to promote renewable energy as well as fossil-fuel subsidies, which are still …

responsibilities. At the same time, environmental stresses caused by China's energy and resources demands have become increasingly …

energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and … carbon city (LCC) development. Against this background, this paper first summarizes the general situation and main … characteristics of China's LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China's LCC development …

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

This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model … that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of … solution in which only technologies are developed that are appropriate for production of non-energy intensive goods. …

seen on the demand-side and the supply-side. Main demand-side policies could be the following: energy saving and efficiency … factors that could affect described policies could be the liberalization of international trade even in the energy sector and …

, technological change is highly uncertain and capital intensive, requiring risky efforts in research and development of clean energy … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels … energy technologies and experts’ beliefs on future costs for the above-mentioned technologies. Focusing on Europe and its …