Reduction in energy dependancy and emissions of CO2 via renewables targeted in the European Union energy mix and taxation system might trigger the production of bioenergy production and competition for biomass utilization. Torrefied biomass could be used to produce second generation biofuels to...

To develop a better understanding of the agriculture sector in the context of climate change and the corresponding issue of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, this paper aims at assessing regional mitigation potential and cost due to changing crops rotations at farm-scale in five European...

This paper presents the version 1.0 of the Green Electricity Simulate (GES), which is a simulation model that has been designed to investigate questions related to biomass-based electricity in the European countries, with a special focus on the biomass co-firing in coal plants. We extend...

Forest transition theory is often used to describe the long term evolution of forest cover in a country as it develops, yet previous theoretical work has considered only net forest cover change when describing deforestation. However, little work exists describing the dynamics involved in forest...

China is now the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases with 7467 million tons (Mt) carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2005, with agriculture accounting for 11% of this total. As elsewhere, agricultural emissions mitigation policy in China faces a range of challenges due to the...

In 2008, Europe chose to commit to multiple targets with the Climate Energy Package (CEP). This package of European texts (mainly Directives & Decisions) set targets for different policies, all for the 2020 time horizon. In March 2013, European Commission issued the Green Paper on “A 2030...

Deforestation is one of the major environmental issues in developping countries and agricultural expansion is its first cause. Uqing the Forest Transition hypothesis, the aim of this paper is to improve the knowledge of the cumulative nature of deforestation. To do this, the macroeconomic...

This paper investigates the impact of the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on technological change. We exploit installations-level inclusion criteria to estimate the impact of the EU ETS on firms patenting. We find that the EU ETS has increased low-carbon innovation among regulated firms by...

We extend the Beltratti, Chichilnisky and Heal’s (1993) and (1998) continuoustime stochastic dynamic framework to analyze the optimal depletion of an environmental asset whose consumption is irreversible, in the face of an exogenous uncertainty about future preferences. We introduce an...

The absence of an international standard on accounting for the carbon units traded in the EU-ETS (European Union – Emission Trading Scheme) has lead to many different accounting methods being used which have raised doubts about the comparability of the financial statements and how capable they...