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 …

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 …

We compare a range of energy efficiency policies in a durable good market subject to both energy-use externalities and …-end good. The rates should always be decreasing in energy efficiency. With per-quality subsidies, there is no such interference … product line if consumers are not too dissimilar, otherwise it should only target the low-end good. An energy tax should be …

household residential energy usage at the national level, containing the broadest geographical coverage, and with the longest … find strong household response to energy prices, both in the short and long term. From the static models, we get estimates … small. These results are in sharp contrast to much of the literature on residential energy consumption in the United States …

This paper, presenting a wide range of issues related to the role of Turkey in the Mediterranean energy context, aims … Union and the overall Euro-Mediterranean region. In particular, the paper focuses on the EU-Turkey energy relations and … outlines the crucial role of natural gas in enhancing energy cooperation between the two players. In 2010 about 80% of EU gas …

Over the last two decades energy has emerged as an increasingly important component of the overall EU-Turkey relations … EU-Turkey energy relations. After years of strong cooperation, the failure of Nabucco and the emergence of TANAP have … ultimately outlined a divergence in the way the EU and Turkey perceive not only the SGC but also their energy relations. This …