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The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Paris 2015) reached an international agreement to keep the rise in global average temperature ‘well below 2°C' and to ‘aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C'. These reductions will have to be made in the face of rising global energy demand....
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Energy security is a burning issue in a world where 1.4 billion people still have no access to electricity. This pioneering book is about finding solutions for energy security through the international trading system. Focusing mainly on the European Union (EU) as a case study, this holistic and...
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A package of economic sanctions has been approved by the U.S. Congress in late June followed by President Obama’s signature, in the hope of pressuring Iran to suspend its nuclear program. The United Nations, for its part, recently imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran in an attempt to...
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during diurnal hours, a gasifier was integrated to obtain a syngas from biomass in place of the traditional natural gas. A …Sustainable biomass exploitation for combined heat and power (CHP) generation is fundamental to address concerns about … demands exclusively through renewable resources. A layout of a hybrid micro-gas turbine-solarplant fed by biomass from …
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The world energy sector is entering a period of transformation, defined by the emergence of a whole range of cost-effective technologies and the formation of new state priorities that can radically change the structure of energy use. The calculations of the development of world energy markets...
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The global energy sector is undergoing a global transformation under the influence of technological breakthroughs in several sectors of production and consumption, as well as profound socioeconomic changes in approaches to energy use. This process became known as "energy transition." In this...
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In 2020, the futures & spot markets of crude oil have changed dramatically. This paper analyzes the price discovery process of the WTI and Brent crude oil futures & spot markets using the information share model of Hasbrouck (1995), and finds that each reverse of the dominant asset can indicate...
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Industrialized countries and emerging economies must cooperate in order to decarbonize the emissions-intensive industrial sector and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While Germany and the other G7 countries have committed to supporting emerging economies in their efforts to combat...
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