Chapter 1. Sustainable Energy and Environmental Sustainability in an Economics and Policy Prospective -- Section I: Economics and Policy of Sustainable Energy -- Chapter 2. Renewable Energy Policy Responses to Observed Impact of Climate Change: Evidence from DPSIR Framework -- Chapter 3. Energy...

The objective of this study is to support Nicaragua's Comision Nacional de Energia (CNE) in preparing and implementing new policy and strategy to encourage the private sector to participate in the development of electrical generation from geothermal energy. The study includes: 1) evaluation of...

We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon intensive - with gas - less so. Unlike the standard theoretical approach to carbon leakage, we show that unilateral CO2 reduction policies generate a higher leakage rate in the...

We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon intensive - with gas - less so. Unlike the standard analysis of carbon leakage, unilateral carbon-reduction policies with more than one carbon energy source may turn...