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In most European countries in the energy sector, a reconsideration of renewable energy priorities is taking place …, increasing consumer safety and protecting the environment through the use of renewable energy sources that provide an affordable … and guaranteed solution in the medium and long term. In Romania renewable energy constitutes 30% of the total percentage …
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livelihoods, including energy needs. Using data originally collected for Namibia's forest resource accounts and insights from a … collecting fuelwood, by increasing labour input to collection more than by reducing energy consumption. There is limited evidence … for substitution from fuelwood to other energy sources, particularly with the declining availability of forest stocks. All …
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policy promoting energy efficiency, increasing investments in natural gas production and bringing the natural gas price on … impacts, environmental issues and social effects of gas pricing. We compare several scenarios of differential gas pricing … significant improvement in energy efficiency, if prices are gradually increased for both consumers and industries alike …
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This paper presents the first investigation of the effects of optimal energy taxation in an urban spatial setting …
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city the trends of several energy and emissions indicators that appear as explanatory variables in both energy and labour … quantify how affect changes in carbon dioxide emissions, energy production and consumption on the some countries life … expectancy, climate change, and labour and energy productivities, we used panel data techniques across some metropolitan areas …
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Kurzfassung: Erdgaskraftwerke sind aktuell in Deutschland aufgrund der mangelnden Wirtschaftlichkeit in ihrer Existenz bedroht, während eine deutliche Zunahme der Schiefergasförderung (Shale Gas) in den USA einen Boom bei der Erdgasverstromung ausgelöst hat. Modellrechnungen zeigen, dass bei...
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energy strategies based on an intelligent mixture of renewable and energy efficiency will answer towards this urgent matter … continents and its close proximity to 70% of the world?s energy resources. The location presents a unique opportunity to act as … an ?energy corridor and terminal? among the Middle Eastern, Caspian and the Western energy markets. Emission growth rates …
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Using a stated choice experiment, we find that a prime that makes environmental identity salient makes people behave greener, whereas it does not if it makes religious identity salient. Further-more, we discover non-linear priming effects for environmental identity, which means that rais-ing the...
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. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German …
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