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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 …
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applied modules they use for representing sectoral energy and emission characteristics and dynamics. The purpose is to provide … technical insight into recent advances in the modelling of current and future energy and abatement technologies and how they can … represent likely energy system transitions in the decades to come, modern CGE tools have learned from bottom-up studies. Three …
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improving the energy efficiency of the transportation system, as well as reducing the costs of electric energy production and … electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and … reservoire of energy that provides back up power to the system, to be employed in peak consumption hours. It is also vital to …
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) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First … carbon sinks and elasticity of substitution. We find that more realistic parameters lead to very different results. Third …
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applied modules they use for representing sectoral energy and emission characteristics and dynamics. The purpose is to provide … technical insight into recent advances in the modelling of current and future energy and abatement technologies and how they can … be used to make baseline projections and scenarios 20-80 years ahead. In order to represent likely energy system …
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A considerable amount of research has shown that a carbon tax combined with research subsidies may be regarded as … optimal policy for encouraging the spread of low-carbon technologies for the benefit of society. The paper exploits the … important differences between Japanese and US energy firms: lower elasticity of the innovation production function in R …
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balanced view of both academics and policy circles. Section 2 discusses how to identify the sectors at a risk of carbon leakage …. Section 3 examines ex ante estimates of potential carbon leakage rates, and explains why they differ from ex post results of … environmental tax reforms and greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes that have been implemented in the European Union. Section 4 …
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sustainable development; blockchain use-cases for renewable energy, decentralized electricity market, carbon credits and climate … to sustainable development and renewable energy and highlights examples from Europe, which has been a leader in … for policy makers interested in harnessing fintech and blockchain for low-carbon, climate-resilient investment and the …
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This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...
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The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon … Capture and Storage) efficiency. First, we characterize the set of decentralized equilibria: A particular equilibrium is … associated to each vector of public tools which includes a carbon tax and a subsidy to each R&D sector. Moreover, we show that it …
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