"This volume explores the roles which politics, market forces and leadership play as barriers or facilitators in the development of sustainable energy sources. Beginning with an overview of energy-related programs and legislation the book discusses the various financial programs and policy...

"Fossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to...

Introduction: Financial Implications of Regulations in the Energy Industry -- Environmental Regulatory Arbitrage by Business Groups in the Context of the European Union's Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) -- Measuring the Effects of Energy Efficiency Policies: Evidence from Turkish Manufacturing...

Local content and the sustainable development Nexus / Damilola S. Olawuy -- Defining the 'local' in local content requirements in the oil and gas sector / Chilenye Nwapi -- Local content measures and the WTO regime : addressing contentions and trade-offs / Mandy Meng Fang -- Local content...