The contribution of efficiency improvements to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is not much investigated. We provide an environmental efficiency analysis with nonparametric methods to quantitatively assess the emission reductions originating from possible efficiency improvements in 16...

The latest projections from pre-2004 EU Member States (EU-15) show that greenhouse gas emissions could be brought down to 8.0 % below 1990 levels by 2010. If all existing and planned domestic policy measures are implemented and Kyoto mechanisms as well as carbon sinks are used, the EU-15 will...