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environmental policies that affect prices and energy demand are mainly effective in directing innovation by small specialized firms …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with …
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This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to...
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Future emissions of trace gases are intrinsically linked to economic growth and abatement policies, which in turn, are governed by expectations of greenhouse damages. Trace gas indices that depend upon future emissions can be calculated either on the basis of emissions scenarios, such as those...
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This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...
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, 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 …
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