The use of renewable energy (RE) sour ces plays a significant role in increa sing the security of energy supply and mitigating climate change. Whereas this role is und isputed, there is an ongoing discussion about the employment impacts of promoting RE deployment. So far no common methodological...

Energy productivity, defined as the ratio of GDP to energy used, is pervasively used as an indicator of energy efficiency at national level, although it is not an appropriate one. We point out that the traditional energy productivity could measure only the cost effectiveness of energy to achieve...

This paper models the Hawaii’s economy in a CGE framework in order to analyze the economic impacts of energy (electricity) efficiency. Looking at energy flows in Hawaii’s economy, this paper traces the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of industry activities by linking a monetary computable...

Combating climate change and other environmental problems are among the main challenges of the current century. As a consequence, researchers as well as policymakers are discussing worldwide how regulative interventions should be designed to cope with these tasks. From an economic perspective,...

The overall impact of sea-level rise (SLR) is one of the reasons of concern related to climate change (e.g. Smith et al., 2009). SLR can reach one metre by the end of the century, which might translate into large economic damages (World Bank, 2009). Sea level rise could severely affect...

Korea government has recently promoted the green growth policies to reduce the energy consumption and cope with global warming by decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions. However, there have been only few quantitative researches on the forecast in case of meeting the government’s reduction...

Technological change has been attributed an important role in reducing the costs associated to climate change mitigation through GHG emission reductions. The adoption and deployment of low-carbon and environmentally friendly technologies has been at the center stage of climate negotiations....

The EU Climate and Energy Package has recently became a hot topic in Poland due to the fact that the first important emission reductions will be introduced in 2013. Moreover, Polish economy is relatively CO2 intensive, as most of the electricity and heat generation is based on coal and some of...

We investigate volatility models and their forecasting abilities for three types of petroleum futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (West Texas Intermediate crude oil, heating oil #2, and unleaded gasoline) and suggest some stylized facts about the volatility of these...

High and increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have remained an urgent priority on the international political agenda since the first Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 1990) and evidence suggests that immediate global action to curb GHG emissions is...