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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 …
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The price of oil : will it start rising again?
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Koske, Isabell; Wanner, Isabelle; … - 2013
Following a sharp drop amidst the global economic crisis and a subsequent recovery, the spot price of crude oil has been broadly stable for the past couple of years. This paper discusses the factors that drive oil demand and supply and, hence, the price of the resource. A set of oil demand...
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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 …
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Améliorer l'efficience de l'investissement public en France
Guérin, Pierre - 2019
L’investissement public a le potentiel de stimuler la demande à court terme, et des infrastructures appropriées peuvent aussi entraîner des gains de productivité et contribuer à rendre la croissance économique plus inclusive en garantissant une égalité d’accès au marché du travail,...
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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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Renewable energy policies and cross-border investment : evidence from mergers and acquisitions in solar and wind energy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Johnstone, Nick; Menon, Carlo; … - 2014
The study assesses the role of feed-in tariffs (FITs) and renewable energy certificates (RECs) in creating incentives … dataset on M&As in alternative energy sources worldwide over 2005-2011. The results suggests that FITs encourage more …-border M&As in the wind energy sector, but an inverted U-shaped relationship in the solar energy sector. One possible …
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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...
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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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Make your building smile - renewable energy in buildings
2009
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