Taking eleven countries in Europe, Canada, South Africa, America, Latin America and Australia, this book discusses recurring barriers to cluster development in the renewable energy sector. The authors look at the real-world dynamics and tensions between stakeholders on the ground, with a...

Markets for environmental externalities are typically closely related to the markets causing such externalities, whereupon strategic interaction may result. Along these lines, the market for Tradable Green Certificates (TGCs) is strongly interwoven in the electricity market as the producers of...

In this paper we investigate the impact of rising energy prices on technological progress in the market for renewable energies. We use patent data of OECD countries from 1970 to 2010 and test the impact of oil prices on the innovative success of countries; R&D, investment activities, electricity...

This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects associated with the extraction of natural resources and the transition from an economy based on fossil fuel use to an economy relying primarily on renewable energy sources. Chapter 1...

Environmental finance, particularly energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) finance, can and should serve as an interface to other sub-sectors of financial sector promotion such as microfinance, housing finance or agricultural finance. For example, existing clients of financial...

Coal - Poland's “black gold” (yesterday) or problem (today) -- Property taxation in Poland – main legal problems -- Taxation of assets used for extraction of energy resources -- Taxation of specific asset used for the transportation and storage of energy resources -- Taxation of onshore...