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The global energy transition is happening, but too slowly to limit climate change to acceptable levels, for diverse … progress is made on decarbonizing energy systems. Any reprieve over the next decade from reaching a global temperature rise … revenue (by penalties and gas sales), improving health (by reducing air pollution), and helping to deliver greater energy …
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This paper analyses the Spanish residential demand of a bundle of goods conforming the basic services of the households (i.e. electricity, natural gas and drinking water) in 2012. The analysis is made using a QUAIDS model modified in order to consider the censoring in the consumption of natural...
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This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to...
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attractive than renewable energy due to CCS's reliance on scarce reservoirs and the resultant shadow value. This serves as a … given to renewable energy in comparison to CCS. …
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As governments and corporations have intensified their efforts to locate, extract, and capitalise oil, gas, and various other biophysical materials, the world has simultaneously witnessed a proliferation of social resistance to these efforts. While taking many forms, such resistance, and...
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International cooperation in support of a global energy transition is on the rise. Initiatives and venues for …. Official development assistance (ODA) in the energy sector is increasingly being directed to renewable energy sources. Despite … (SDG) 7 on clean and affordable energy is insufficient. A recent report by SE4ALL estimates annual investments in support …
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This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...
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Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects - so-called rebound effects - compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...
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We critically review the Kyoto Protocol and thirteen alternative policy architectures for addressing the threat of global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of...
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