experts’ estimates of the costs of future energy technologies. We harmonize data from 19 elicitations, involving 215 experts …, on the 2030 costs of 5 energy technologies: nuclear, biofuels, bioelectricity, solar, and carbon capture. We control for … that, on average, when experts respond to elicitations in person, they ascribe lower confidence (larger uncertainty) to …

Following the first oil crisis, France launched the world’s largest ever nuclear energy program, commissioning 58 new … energy policy crossroads: should the reactors be retrofitted or should they be decommissioned? The cost-optimal decision … depends on several factors going forward, in particular the expected costs of nuclear energy production, electricity demand …

Hydrogen is currently enjoying a renewed and widespread momentum in the energy market. In the last years, demand for … promising opportunities not only to fight climate change, but also to redraw geopolitical relations between states. The energy … transition is already taking place, with renewable energies gradually eroding the global energy system based on fossil fuels. A …

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 combines an econometric analysis of the response of energy demand to temperature and humidity exposure with … future scenarios of climate change and socioeconomic development to characterize climate impacts on energy demand at … different spatial scales. Globally, future climate change is expected to have a moderate impact on energy demand, in the order …

This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … desired levels according to the prescription of the SDG of per water, energy and food capita consumption is reached by each … investment have a positive accelerating effect on food convergence as well as on energy convergence. …

, technological change is highly uncertain and capital intensive, requiring risky efforts in research and development of clean energy … produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels …

under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under … adequate participation in a conservation plan. We analytically determine the impact of uncertainty and optimal policy …

Uncertainty plays a key role in the economics of climate change, and the discussions surrounding its implications for … climate policy are far from settled. We give an overview of the literature on uncertainty in integrated assessment models of … complementary approaches that model uncertainty in association with integrated assessment models: the discrete uncertainty modeling …