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responsibilities. At the same time, environmental stresses caused by China’s energy and resources demands have become increasingly …
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This paper studies innovation dynamics in efficiency improving electricity generation technologies as an important means of mitigating climate change impacts. Relevant patents are identified and used as an indicator of innovation. We find that patenting in efficiency improving technologies has...
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Future energy demand will be affected by changes in prices and income, but also by other factors, like temperature … annual regional demand for energy goods. Combining estimates of temperature elasticities with scenarios of future climate … change, it is possible to assess variations in energy demand induced (directly) by the global warming. We use this …
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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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&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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Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national …
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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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This paper analyses futures prices for four energy commodities (light sweet crude oil, heating oil, gasoline and …
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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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