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 …

This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions … adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the comparison of past goals and present results, it is argued that more … energy system and the necessary reduction of greenhouse gases. …

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

annual regional demand for energy goods. Combining estimates of temperature elasticities with scenarios of future climate …Future energy demand will be affected by changes in prices and income, but also by other factors, like temperature … change, it is possible to assess variations in energy demand induced (directly) by the global warming. We use this …

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 …

The present research proposes a macroeconomic assessment of the role of waste incineration with energy recovery (WtE … energy sectors in such a framework required both the extension of the GTAP7 database and the improvement of the ICES … shown that albeit in the near future WtE and landfill biogas will continue to represent a limited share of energy inputs in …

--based energy production is expressed in the Kyoto Protocol, which prescribes, on average, a 7 percent reduction in GHG emissions … accounting matrix (SAM) to serve as a benchmark by combining physical energy and emission data and economic data from various … dividend is possible under a rather standard set of assumptions. Moreover, for higher substitutability between the energy …