With the expansion of renewable energy sources (RES) in countries all over the world, policy design to address the … negative impacts of RES plants on their local and regional environment gains in importance. We analyse whether policy design … should be spatially-differentiated or uniform when negative RES environmental externalities are spatially heterogeneous and …

followed the Grenelle de l’environnement encompass policy measures in energy generation, manufacturing, transport, waste … has been made to 'green' the economy, an important challenge that remains is to internalize global and local externalities …

national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes … regressions, controlling for macroeconomic factors such as economic development, GDP growth, urbanisation, as well as the energy … mix. We find that higher carbon taxes and prices of permits in ETS reduce carbon emissions. An increase in carbon taxes by …

benefits. Our results highlight the key roles of tax salience and fuel-substitution in mediating the effectiveness of fuel taxes … to reduce climate and health externalities. …

the effectiveness of fuel taxes to reduce climate and health externalities. …

that it could lead to an increase in energy use, while the use of energy taxes might actually reduce the attractiveness of …This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that … energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of …

energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and … difficulty in further carbon mitigation, inevitable emissions growth due to rising living standards, and coal-dominant energy … carbon a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon …

policy instruments that may be technical standards, emission prohibition, tradable permits, taxes, voluntary agreements and … particular attention to how countries succeed in conducting cost-effective and consistent policies in the environment and natural …