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Energy and emissions conflicts in urban areas
Conde, Touria Abdelkader B. - 2014
-Tech user countries like China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The more high energy productivity is in Japan, Singapore and …
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Off-grid renewable energy as a chance for sustainable development of the South of Russia
Ratner, Svetlana - 2013
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University spin-off firms in sustainable energy in five countries : what determines their reaching of the market?
Nejabat, Razie; Geenhuizen, Marina S. van - 2016
An entrepreneurial perspective to introduction of sustainable energy solutions to the market has been recognized as important for decades, but mainly concerning large firms. Today, attention is increasingly turning to young high-technology ventures which, compared to large incumbents, are more...
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Subsidising renewables but taxing storage? : second-best policies with imperfect carbon pricing
Helm, Carsten; Mier, Mathias - 2019
We consider an economy in which competitive firms use three technologies for electricity production: pollutive fossils, intermittent renewables like wind or solar, and storage. We determine optimal subsidies for renewables and storage capacities when carbon pricing is imperfect. This policy is...
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Spatial energy model for the reduction in CO2 by district heating systems within the built environment in the Netherlands
Bemmel, Sebastiaan van; Wijngaart, Ruud van den; … - 2013
A more sustainable heat supply of the built environment is needed to reach the policy goal of a climate-neutral economy in the Netherlands by 2050. This paper presents a method using a spatial energy model to calculate the most cost-effective CO2- reduction potential of a sustainable heat supply...
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Main directions for energy use of biomass in Romania
Berevoianu, Rozi Liliana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 333-339). 2020
Energy is an area of strategic and vital importance for Romania's economic development. At national level there is a wide activity of using biomass for the production of electricity and heat, determined by the requirements of the European Union's energy policy to reduce CO2 emissions. The...
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Climate change implications for environmental performance of residential building energy use: the case of Qatar
Andric, Ivan; Al-Ghamdi, Sami G. - In: Energy reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 587-592
Building energy demands in the future could increase due to the climate change driven increase in outdoor temperatures. Gulf countries characterized by extreme climate and dependency on fossil fuels would be especially vulnerable to such impacts. Considering that in such countries about 80% of...
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Schumpeterian economic dynamics of greening : propagation of green eco-platforms
Mathews, John A. - In: Innovation, catch-up and sustainable development : a …, (pp. 339-361). 2021
greening; and it is one that is as applicable as much to China and emerging industrial powers as to advanced industrial …
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The causal effect of religious and environmental identity on green preferences : a combined priming and stated choice experiment
Engler, Daniel; Groh, Elke D.; Ziegler, Andreas - 2019 - Preliminary version
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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Comprehensive evaluation of environmental policy for water pollutants and greenhouse gases reduction in Jiaxing city, China
Xu, Feng; Xiang, Nan; Wang, Shanshan; Li, Yang; … - 2011
Recently, various environmental problems have been generated with the rapid economic development in China. That …'s because China currently over-emphasized economic development beyond environmental issues; therefore, now it is important to … study, we selected Jiaxing city as research area for that the environmental pollution problem has become prominent with …
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