United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an … its application by elaborating specific target areas for the energy sector. Based on a review and integration of global … debates around SDG and energy, the framework puts human wellbeing at the center of the agenda, with the supporting resource …

businesses or developments. A few of the most important of these challenges—population growth, clean energy supply, fresh water …

related emissions due to the additional energy requirements. In contrast, septic tank systems have the lowest construction and …

resources such as water, energy, soil (agriculture), liquid and solid organic waste streams as well as in the development of …

actions comprise: (1) dense urban structure with less private driving; (2) the use of energy production based on renewable … sources; (3) new low-energy residential construction; and (4) improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings. The … reduction potential lies with lowering the fossil fuel dependence of the local energy production. …

standard, which gives rise to claims by countries to an exemption from mitigation for the energy and emissions needed to … provide a decent life to all. We elaborate a conceptual framework for a comprehensive quantification of such an energy … requirement, including the energy required to build out infrastructure to support these living standards. We interpret decent …

The results are reported of an energy analysis of a biomass/coal co-firing based power generation system, carried out … energy efficiency decreases with increase of biomass proportion in the fuel mixture, and that the extent of the decrease …

areas are configured in precincts, which have been identified as an ideal scale for low-carbon technologies that address energy …

I use a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends in 85 countries over a 37-year period …. Differences in energy efficiency across countries are modeled as a stochastic function of explanatory variables and I estimate the …. Energy efficiency is measured using a new energy distance function approach. The country using the least energy per unit …

analysis, graph theory enables us to understand the dynamic behavior of our price system. We show that energy markets--as a … whole--stand at the heart of this system. We also establish that crude oil is itself at the center of the energy complex …