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Climate change policies in Poland : minimising abatement costs
Égert, Balázs - 2012
should ensure that the country’s substantial reduction potential, mainly linked to the energy sector’s high emissions … signal. While Poland has made good progress in complying with EU regulations related to the energy sector, the large share of … related to extraction of the latter. Energy efficiency policies can help to address market failure but should not be allowed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690152
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Restructuring the electricity sector and promoting green growth in Japan
Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2013
The 2011 disaster and nuclear problems opened the door to a new energy policy, as they raised fundamental questions … Fukushima accident makes it necessary to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy, which requires setting a sufficiently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009769661
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The use of revenues from carbon pricing
Marten, Melanie; Van Dender, Kurt - 2019
taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise taxes on energy use. It notes that constraints – which can take the form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135991
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Greenhouse gas emissions and price elasticities of transport fuel demand in Belgium
Schmitz, Tom - 2012
Since 1990, Belgium has managed to bring down greenhouse gas emissions in most domains of economic activity. Road transport, as in many other countries, is a notable exception to this pattern: emissions have steadily increased, driven by an ever higher consumption of petrol and diesel. Even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690147
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OECD progress update on approaches to mobilising institutional investment for sustainable infrastructure : background paper to the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group
Röttgers, Dirk; Tandon, Aayush; Kaminker, Christopher - 2018
The large need for investments in sustainable infrastructure will require investments from the private sector, including institutional investors. This working paper contributes to scaling up investments by analysing public project-level interventions for projects involving institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990042
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Power struggle : decarbonising the electricity sector : effects of climate policies, policy misalignments and political economy factors on decarbonisation
Röttgers, Dirk; Anderson, Brilé - 2018
This report investigates the effects of select climate policies, non-climate policies, as well as political economy factors on the decarbonisation of electricity in OECD countries from 2000 to 2015. Effects are analysed on the three phases of decarbonisation: (1) increasing the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990043
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The price of oil : will it start rising again?
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Koske, Isabell; Wanner, Isabelle; … - 2013
combined with assumptions about the behaviour of supply to analyse the impact of a range of macroeconomic and policy scenarios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767765
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Will oil prices decline over the long run?
Kaufmann, Robert Kurt; Karadeloglou, Pavlos V.; Di … - 2008
At present, oil markets appear to be behaving in a fashion similar to that in the late 1970s and early 1980s when oil prices rose sharply over an extended period. Furthermore, like at that time, analysts are split on whether such increases will persist or reverse, and if so by how much. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639811
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Energiepolitik : erfolgreiche Energiewende nur im europäischen Kontext
Hübner, Malte; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Weigert, Benjamin - 2012
In Deutschland besteht seit dem Beschluss des Energiekonzepts der schwarz-gelben Koalition im Jahr 2010 und dem im Jahr 2011 erneut bestätigten Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie ein Konsens, die Stromerzeugung bis zum Jahr 2050 so umzubauen, dass die erneuerbaren Energien daran den Hauptanteil...
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Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments : the manufacturing industries in Norway
Dobrinevski, Alexander; Jachnik, Raphaël - 2020
Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities, and a 2°C scenario for the Nordic region from the International Energy Agency. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180399