scholarly journals Comparison and interactions between the long-term pursuit of energy independence and climate policies

Nature Energy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Jewell ◽  
Vadim Vinichenko ◽  
David McCollum ◽  
Nico Bauer ◽  
Keywan Riahi ◽  
...  
2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (50) ◽  
pp. 502024
Author(s):  
Kim Van Nieuwaal ◽  
P Driessen ◽  
T Spit ◽  
K Termeer

Author(s):  
Maddalena Ferranna

The debate on the economics of climate change has focused primarily on the choice of the social discount rate, which plays a key role in determining the desirability of climate policies given the long-term impacts of climate damages. Discounted utilitarianism and the Ramsey Rule dominate the debate on discounting. The chapter examines the appropriateness of the utilitarian framework for evaluating public policies. More specifically, it focuses on the risky dimension of climate change, and on the failure of utilitarianism in expressing both concerns for the distribution of risks across the population and concerns for the occurrence of catastrophic outcomes. The chapter shows how a shift to the prioritarian paradigm is able to capture those types of concerns, and briefly sketches the main implications for the choice of the social discount rate.


Author(s):  
Thierry Bréchet ◽  
Natalia Hritonenko ◽  
Yuri Yatsenko

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Josephine K. Musango ◽  
Alan C. Brent

Technology roadmaps are critical for decisions pertaining to technology development. They have been utilised in the renewable energy sector to assist in filtering alternative technology options in order to support energy policy formulation, energy security and energy independence, among others. However, solar aided power generation is a recent concept and no roadmap has been developed for the technology as yet. This paper thus reviewed the literature related to roadmapping with the aim of understanding the methods and tools that have been utilised in other settings. Informed by the literature, a conceptual framework was developed, which was further utilised for the initial analysis for developing a roadmap for solar aided power generation in South Africa. Generally, it would be beneficial for South Africa to integrate solar aided power generation within its current Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) or the National Treasury Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme. However, it should be noted that this is only feasible in the short- and medium-term. In the long-term, there is a need to support stand-alone solar thermal technologies.


Significance US re-entry into the Paris Agreement will signal renewed climate engagement by Washington. Prospects for climate cooperation are better than they seemed a year ago, with net-zero targets being more widely adopted, alongside long-term ambition statements. Credibility will depend on substantial changes in near-term climate policies and the pursuit of ‘green recoveries’.


2018 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Leimbach ◽  
Niklas Roming ◽  
Anselm Schultes ◽  
Gregor Schwerhoff

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. V. Pezzey

How can the malign and growing influence of lobbying on global climate policies be checked? In this short piece I link some wide-ranging suggestions for academic research by environment and development economists that is needed to further this aim, with the key idea in Acemoglu and Robinson's (2012) Why Nations Fail. Their book argues strongly that sustained, very long-term economic growth through national industrial revolutions requires ‘inclusive institutions’ that distribute political power broadly over a nation's economic, class and geographical sectors. This is because long-term growth needs technical innovations, which cause creative destruction (structural adjustment) of existing technologies, which in turn harms the interests of existing elites. If elites are too powerful, they will block new technologies, so as to keep their powers to extract rents from the rest of society, and the nation will then fail (to grow sustainably).


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0

Renewable energy, such as solar and wind, has been increasing in popularity for over a decade. This is especially true in rural, underdeveloped areas, and urban households that desire energy independence. Renewable energy sources, such as solar, provide enhanced environmental benefits while simultaneously minimizing the carbon footprint. One popular technology that can capture solar energy is solar panels. The demand for solar panels has been on the rise due to increases in energy conversion efficiency, long-term financial advantages, and contributions to decreasing fossil fuel usage. However, solar panels need a steady supply of sunlight. This can be challenging in many situations, geographies, and environments. This paper uses multiple machine learning (ML) algorithms that can predict future values of solar radiation based on previously observed values and other environmental features measured without the use of complex equipment with methods that are computationally efficient so that forecasting can be done on consumer premises.


2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Bosetti ◽  
Marzio Galeotti ◽  
Alessandro Lanza
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