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This study analyzes energy intensity trends and drivers in 40 major economies using the WIOD database, a novel harmonized and consistent dataset of input-output table time series accompanied by environmental satellite data. We use logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition to (1) study trends...
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This paper aims to analyse the evolution of energy efficiency systems for the residential sector of EU countries over the past twenty years and the associated process of structural change occurred in EU economies. To this purpose, we develop a set of indicators to measure some significant...
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Our paper examines the triangular relationships between energy consumption, trade openness and economic growth of 45 countries from 1991 to 2014 using dynamic seemingly unrelated regression (DSUR) models. We confirm a bidirectional relationship among energy consumption and income, trade openness...
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Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people's livelihoods, productivity, health, food, and nutritional security. While business-as-usual demand projections suggest 19 new cooling appliances will be sold every second by...
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Countries differ considerably in terms of the price drivers pay for gasoline. This paper uses data for 132 countries for the period 1995–2008 to investigate the implications of these differences for the consumption of gasoline for road transport. To address the potential for simultaneity bias,...
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China's unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both … the stringency issue, and given that China's pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning … China's statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China's commitments differ in form from those of other major …
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China's unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both … the stringency issue, and given that China's pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning … China's statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China's commitments differ in form from those of other major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123268
China’s unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both … the stringency issue, and given that China’s pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning … China’s statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China’s commitments differ in form from that of other major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181812
technology to do this is carbon capture and storage (CCS). China simultaneously presents the most challenging and critical test … for CCS deployment at scale. While China has begun an handful of marquee CCS demonstration projects, the stark reality to … be explored in this paper is that China’s incentives for keeping on the forefront of CCS technology learning do not …
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emission limits for China, this paper provides the economic rationale for the industrialized countries to invest in JI projects … in developing countries like China, where the costs of abating greenhouse gas emissions are lower than trying to achieve … areas for JI projects that may be in China's interest. This discussion underlines that taking due consideration of local …
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