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Existing studies have focused on the negative impact of inefficient resource allocation on energy performance in China … impact of market segmentation on China's energy efficiency. The results show that although energy efficiency in the eastern … indicates that market segmentation is negative to China's energy efficiency significantly. This finding remains robust even if …
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Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has … contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path …. We find that in China's initial growth period the small amount of capital stock creates higher dynamic benefits of …
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Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consumers and businesses to the degree that would apparently be justified, even on a purely financial...
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climate fronts. In the wake of the upcoming COP-21 talks at Paris and the already announced US-China agreement on peaking of …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of energy efficiency in fossil fuel electricity generation across 28 OECD countries over the period 1981-2006, with particular attention to the role played by technological development and the availability of energy efficient...
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The iron and steel industry is one of the most carbon emitting and energy consuming sectors in Europe. At the same time this sector is of high economic importance for the European Union. Therefore, while public environmental and energy policies target this sector, there is political concern that...
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Energy efficiency and decarbonization are important elements of climate change mitigation. We draw on European mitigation scenarios from the EMF28 modeling exercise to decompose economy-wide and sectoral emissions into their main components. We utilize the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI)...
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overcome the rigid Stochastic Frontier framework in modelling the effect of technical change. Our results show that the derived …
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Greening the economy is mostly about improving water governance and not only about putting the existing resource saving technical alternatives into practice. Focusing on the second and forgetting the first risks finishing with a highly efficient use of water services at the level of each...
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What do we know about the size of the rebound effect? Should we believe claims that energy efficiency improvements lead to an increase in energy use? This paper clarifies what the rebound effect is, and provides a guide for economists and policymakers interested in its magnitude. We describe how...
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