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 …

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 …

energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and … difficulty in further carbon mitigation, inevitable emissions growth due to rising living standards, and coal-dominant energy … carbon a crucial step for China's endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon …

energy system required to achieve stringent climate change mitigation targets. Due to their substantial temporal and spatial …

, 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 …

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 …

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

see the advantages of renewables and the exploitation of domestic energy resources, yet the necessary adaptations of power … renewables and to create an internal energy market (IEM) thus aim at ameliorating this situation by e.g. both stimulating … construction of renewable energy infrastructure and creating more interconnectors between member states. But due to various …