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'Civil' nuclear programme – serving the dual objectives of retaining the state's hegemony on citizens' basic energy needs and assuring supply of weapon grade ingredients: a case st...
Dey, Dipankar - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 33 (2010) 3/4, pp. 205-220
Political leaders of ambitious emerging economies of India and China, where the state has not yet reached the maturity … generation' in the near future is expected in China, Japan, South Korea and India. It would be naive to believe that the … the emerging economies of India, China, Brazil, etc., aligned themselves with the nuclear establishment without fully …
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Green paper: A European strategy for sustainable, competitive and secure energy
Piebalgs, Andris - In: CESifo Forum 7 (2006) 2, pp. 8-20
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Potentiale und Risiken der Nutzung von Methan aus Methanhydraten als Energieträger
Groth, Markus - 2009
Marine and permafrost-based methane hydrates are the largest existing fossil carbon resource, whereby the marine deposits far outweigh the terrestrial ones. Their broad geographic distribution, especially in comparison to oil and conventional gas, make them a promising future source of energy....
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The Economics of the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET)
del Mundo, Israel; Wills, Ian R. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
In response to increasing awareness of climate change, the Howard government implemented the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) in 2001. It requires electricity wholesalers to source an additional 9500 GWh of electricity from renewable sources by 2010. Electricity wholesalers are required...
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Are Environmentally Related Taxes Effective?
Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper focuses on the question of whether the magnitude of long-established environmentally related taxes (ERT) is related to countries environmental performance. While environmental taxes efficiencies have previously been discussed, those taxes contribution to reducing pollution and...
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Better Growth, Helping the Paris COP-out? Fallacies and Omissions of the New Climate Economy Report
Spash, Clive L. - Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development, … - 2014
The debate over how to address greenhouse gas emissions reduction remains unresolved. The basic conflict between the environment and economic growth is fundamental to the problem but is something now being denied. Green Growth has been put forward as resolving the issue in a report backed by...
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Establishment of a European energy policy think-tank: necessity or luxury?
Doukas, H.; Flamos, A.; Karakosta, C.; Psarras, J. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 33 (2010) 3/4, pp. 221-238
A new research agenda and ground breaking approaches should be adopted in order to overcome energy system inertia and pass through the current carbon constrained economy to new prosperous and more sustainable energy development paths. The wide consensus of the energy sector community (business,...
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Bioenergy from the Swedish Forest Sector - A Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Supply Costs and Implications for the Forest Product Markets
Carlsson, Mattias - Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet - 2012
As a response to policy requirements to improve energy security, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the use of bioenergy in Sweden has more than doubled since 1980. In 2008 bioenergy use in Sweden amounted to 108 TWh, or 18% of the total supply of primary energy. Nearly all of this...
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The emission reduction effect and economic impact of an energy tax vs. a carbon tax in China : a dynamic CGE model analysis
Zou, Lele; Xue, Jinjun; Fox, Alan; Meng, Bo; Shibata, … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Chinese government commits to reach its peak carbon emissions before 2030, which requires China to implement new policies. Using a CGE model, this study conducts simulation studies on the functions of an energy tax and a carbon tax and analyzes their effects on macro-economic indices. The...
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An EU Sky Trust: Distributional Analysis for Hungary
Ferjentsik, Viola; Ash, Michael - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2007
We analyze the effects of EU adoption of a Sky Trust (Barnes and Breslow 2003) on the income distribution of Hungary, a lower-middle income EU member.  We use plausible parameters for an EU carbon charge and revenue recycling system, input-output data to track the effect of a carbon charge on...
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