The aim of this country specific study is tounderstand long and short-run linkages between economicgrowth, energy consumption and CO2 emission using Tunisiandata over the period 1971-2004. Statistical findings indicatethat economic growth, energy consumption and CO2 emissionare related in the...

This thesis investigates the energy performance of resorts in Egypt. The expansive tourism development results in higher demands of energy whilst increasing the burden on the country’s economy. The objective is to evaluate solar resorts versus the conventional design in terms of energy,...

Die fünf Essays dieser Dissertation behandeln Themen aus dem Bereich der Entwicklungs- und Umweltökonomie. Alle Essays analysieren wie die Produktion von CO2 Emissionen beeinflusst oder reguliert werden kann. Das Treibhausgas CO2 ist eine der größten Externalitäten der Geschichte...

Politische Entscheidungsträger stehen heute vor der Herausforderung, dem Klimawandel zu begegnen, ohne das Entwicklungspotential von Entwicklungsländern einzuschränken. In diesem Zusammenhang trägt diese Arbeit zur Beantwortung der Frage bei, ob Entwicklung ohne höheren CO2-Ausstoß...

España se encuentra en una senda hacia la descarbonización de la economía. Esta evolución se debe principalmente a cambios estructurales en la economía, donde los sectores menos intensivos en el uso de energía están ganando peso, y a un mayor uso de fuentes de energía primaria con menor...

Rationale The 2015 Paris Agreement is a milestone in the global fight against climate change. Against this backdrop, and as a result of credit institutions’ alignment with the agreement, it is important to analyse its impact on lending to firms. Takeaways •The 2015 Paris Agreement represents...

It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...

Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...

In July 1989, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy to initiate the development of a comprehensive National Energy Strategy (NES) built upon a national consensus. The overall principle for the NES, as defined by the President and articulated by the Economic Policy Council (EPC), is the...