The aim of this paper is to assess how policy goals in relation to the promotion of green growth, energy security, pollution control and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions have been aligned in policies that have been implemented in selected countries during the last decades as a basis for...

Pilot application of the energy efficiency and energy savings accounting system in Russia and energy consumption growth decomposition analysis have shown that: 1) its creation is possible even based on non-comprehensive statistical base; 2) its application provides non-trivial results and shows...

This paper investigates costs and benefits associated with low-carbon economic development pathways realization to the mid XXI century. 30 scenarios covering practically all "visions of the future" were developed by several research groups based on scenario assumptions agreed upon in advance. It...

The article considers the potential of economy-wide Russian energy efficiency, focusing on methodological issues in aggregating the potentials identified for each sector and the evaluation of indirect energy efficiency gains. Energy efficiency potential doubles, if associated energy use...