scholarly journals WOULD CLIMATE POLICY IMPROVE THE EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY?

2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550008 ◽  
Author(s):  
CÉLINE GUIVARCH ◽  
STÉPHANIE MONJON ◽  
JULIE ROZENBERG ◽  
ADRIEN VOGT-SCHILB
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Dimension Analysis ◽  
Uncertainty Space ◽  
The Many ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Energy security improvement is often presented as a co-benefit of climate policies. This paper evaluates this claim. It investigates whether climate policy would improve energy security, while accounting for the difficulties entailed by the many-faceted nature of the concept and the large uncertainties on the determinants of future energy systems. A multi-dimension analysis grid is used to capture the energy security concept, and a database of scenarios allows us to explore the uncertainty space. The results, focusing on Europe, reveal there is no unequivocal effect of climate policy on all the perspectives of energy security. Moreover, time significantly matters: the impact of climate policies is mixed in the short term and globally good in the medium term. In the long term, there is a risk of degradation of the energy security. Lastly, we examine the robustness of our results to uncertainties on drivers of economic growth, availability of fossil fuels and the potentials and low-carbon technologies, and find that they are sensitive mainly to fossil fuels availability, low carbon technologies in the energy sector and improvements in energy efficiency.

Climate Change Actions and Just Transition

2018 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850024
Author(s):  
Ying ZHANG ◽  
Mou WANG
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Job Skills ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Response Measures ◽  
Green Investment ◽  
The Impact

This paper elaborates the progress of the studies and negotiations on a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent and quality jobs, in the context of implementing response measures under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Just transition in essence deals with the employment issues, thus the impact of climate change policies on employment should be understood in the first place. Low-carbon development refers to a development path to low-carbon economic growth by phasing out fossil fuels, with the objective of achieving sustainable development while fighting climate change. Adjustments in the industry structure and energy structure will not only have an impact on the employment scale and structure but also generate new demand for job skills. In order to achieve just transition in implementing climate policies, China should promote targeted research, create more low-carbon jobs by increasing green investment, and pay special attention to people who lose their jobs due to the implementation of climate policies and keep them from falling into poverty.

scholarly journals Energy Security Problem amid Global Energy Transition

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 772-784
Author(s):  
Yury V. Borovsky
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

In the early 2020s the worlds transition from carbon-intensive to climate-neutral energy use has already become a discernible and a difficult-to-reverse process. With Joe Bidens election as US president, the United States have returned to the Paris Climate Agreement and have become a key driver of this process (along with the EU and China). As a result, the international community has reached a consensus on the ongoing energy transition. This process will require considerable effort and may take several decades. Nevertheless, the impact of energy transition on traditional approaches to energy security, which emerged largely as a result of the global oil crises of the 1970s and 1980s and are centered around the supply of fossil fuels, is already a relevant research topic. This problem is examined relying on the relevant terminological, theoretical and factual material. The article concludes that energy transition will ultimately undermine the carbon paradigm that has underpinned energy security policies since the 1970s. Rapid development of renewable and other low-carbon energy sources will certainly remove key energy security risks of energy importers and, possibly, allow them to achieve energy independence. However, a post-carbon era may also generate new risks. For countries that rely heavily on oil, gas and coal exports, energy transition will result in the loss of markets and revenues. It may present an energy security threat for them as well as it will require a costly and technologically complex process of the energy sector decarbonization. Some exporters, especially those with high fuel rents and insufficient financial reserves, may face serious economic and social upheavals as a result of energy transition. The EU and the US energy transition policies reflect provisions of all three fundamental international relations theoretical paradigms, including realism. This means that the EU and the US policy, aimed at promoting climate agenda, may be expected to be rather tough and aggressive. China as the third key player in energy transition is still following a liberal course; however, it may change in the future.

scholarly journals Dynamic Role of Renewable Eenrgy to Strengthen Energy Security and Energy Poverty Reduction: Mediating Role of Low Carbon Finance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinh van Tien ◽  
Thai Van Ha ◽  
Tran Duc Thuan ◽  
Thai Thi Kim Oanh ◽  
Nguyen Phan Thu Hang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
High Risk Area

Abstract This paper provides an empirical analysis of deploying renewables in Africa's five most populous countries for 2001-2019. It analyzed these factors to see how they impact deploying renewables by employing panel data using the pooled ordinary least squared(OLS) at frim level analysis to increase energy security and to reduce energy poverty. After the analysis, we proved that access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking needs the study countries to deploy renewables as most Africans cook with polluting fuels having detrimental health implications. The analyses further revealed that these countries generate a chunk of their electricity from fossil fuel sources, making it imperative to jettison fossil fuels and embrace renewables cheaper and environmentally friendly. The analysis also showed that the Quality of regulation in a country is vitally important to scaling up renewables in the study countries since the right policy tools underpin the transition. Furthermore, the lack of Electrification is important to developing renewal energy sources in the study countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has about nearly 600 million people not having access to electricity. Thus deploying renewables will bridge the access gap. Cleaner energies will be the panacea to the study countries’ energy insecurity situation and bridge the access gap. The study countries have the technical and theoretical potential for all the renewable energies needed to ensure sustainable consumption. What is needed is to institute cornerstone financial policy de-risking instruments to crowd in private capital since the renewables sector is perceived as a high-risk area.

Designing sustainable energy plans for the Greater Mekong Subregion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Galelli ◽  
Kais Siala ◽  
AFM Kamal Chowdhury ◽  
Thanh Duc Dang
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Planning Period ◽  
Riverine Ecosystems ◽  
The Many ◽  
Greater Mekong Subregion ◽  
The Impact

<p>Fossil fuels and hydropower dams have long been at the backbone of power supply systems in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), an energy policy catalyzed by the direct availability of these resources, the backing of foreign investments, and the limited coordination among the many decision-makers. Such policy has resulted in large externalities: gas and coal-fired plants contribute to the carbon footprint of all GMS countries, particularly Thailand; dams have affected the riverine ecosystems, impacting entire economic sectors. According to the official energy plans, coal will be soon sidelined, but dams will keep playing an important role. That is despite the availability of solar and other renewable resources. Is it possible to design more sustainable energy plans for the GMS? Can we limit the number of dams that will be built in the near future? What are the main technologies and policies that should be prioritized? To answer these questions, we developed a spatially-distributed numerical model that co-optimizes capacity expansion as well as hourly dispatch of generation, transmission, and storage. The model is applied to Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, over a planning period spanning from 2016 to 2037. Optimization results show that the generation capacity planned by these countries could be met in a more sustainable manner by relying on solar PV, which could supply about one third of the projected electricity demand. Investments in renewable energy should be supported by cross-border grid interconnections, which would connect load centers to more production sites, easing the supply-demand balancing. To put the analysis in a broader water-energy context, we also assess the impact of current and proposed energy plans on river connectivity and flows. Overall, our analysis demonstrates that there are untapped opportunities for untying the fate of the Mekong River basin from that of power supply and economic development.</p>

The Effects and Countermeasures of Low-Carbon Economy on China’s International Competitiveness of Industries

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 1216-1219
Author(s):  
Jian Bo Hu
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
International Competitiveness ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Strategic Objective ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

Contradiction between the environment and economic development have become increasingly prominent, high-carbon development model of the world economy is more difficult to maintain, low-carbon development has becomea strategic objective of all countries. Countries hold low-carbon technologies, the establishment of a green trade barriers, lack of core technology and our industry, lack of international competitiveness of exports facing enormous challenges. For this reason, the paper deeply analyzes the impact of a low-carbon economy on the international competitiveness of the industry and made a reasonable suggestions and strategies from both countries and companies on how to enhance the international competitiveness of industry.

23. Energy Security

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Raphael ◽  
Doug Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
International Security ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Global North ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines growing concerns over global energy security due to rising demand for fossil fuels by industrialized economies coupled with increasing uncertainties over future energy reserves. It considers the implications of increasing energy insecurity amongst the world’s major powers for international security by focusing on the politics of oil. After providing an overview of the problem of energy security, the chapter discusses the connection between energy security and International Relations theories such as liberalism, realism, and historical materialism. It then explores the link between energy security and human insecurity, and how the search for energy security by states in the global North affects the human security of communities in the oil-rich global South. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the role played by the United States in underpinning global energy security in the post-war era, and the impact that this has had for oil-rich regions.

scholarly journals Devising Mineral Resource Supply Pathways to a Low-Carbon Electricity Generation by 2100

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Boubault ◽  
Nadia Maïzi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Integrated Assessment Model ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Life Cycle Inventories ◽  
The Impact

Achieving a “carbon neutral” world by 2100 or earlier in a context of economic growth implies a drastic and profound transformation of the way energy is supplied and consumed in our societies. In this paper, we use life-cycle inventories of electricity-generating technologies and an integrated assessment model (TIMES Integrated Assessment Model) to project the global raw material requirements in two scenarios: a second shared socioeconomic pathway baseline, and a 2 °C scenario by 2100. Material usage reported in the life-cycle inventories is distributed into three phases, namely construction, operation, and decommissioning. Material supply dynamics and the impact of the 2 °C warming limit are quantified for three raw fossil fuels and forty-eight metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources. Depending on the time horizon, graphite, sand, sulfur, borates, aluminum, chromium, nickel, silver, gold, rare earth elements or their substitutes could face a sharp increase in usage as a result of a massive installation of low-carbon technologies. Ignoring nonfuel resource availability and value in deep decarbonation, circular economy, or decoupling scenarios can potentially generate misleading, contradictory, or unachievable climate policies.

scholarly journals Has Green Finance Facilitated China's Low-Carbon Economic Transition?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wenqi ◽  
Jingjing Fan ◽  
Jiawei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Economic Transition ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Green Finance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

Abstract The development of green finance helps to promote the transition to a low-carbon economy. Using data from 30 provinces in China from 2001-2019, we empirically examine the impact of green finance on the transition to a low-carbon economy and further explore the mediating role of low-carbon technological innovation in this facilitation process. The study finds that (1) green finance can significantly contribute to the transformation of the low-carbon economy from China as a whole. However, when China is divided into four regions: east, central, west and northeast, the contribution of green finance to the low-carbon economic transition in the west is not significant. (2) After adding low-carbon technologies to the model, green finance still has a significant contribution to the low-carbon economic transition, but this contribution decreases with the intervention of low-carbon technologies. (3) There is a strong spatial dependence between green finance development and low-carbon economic transformation in 30 Chinese provinces. However, the dependence among provinces tends to weaken after 2011. And the overall green financial development in China shows a positive spillover effect on the low-carbon economic transition. Based on the analysis results, several countermeasures are proposed to promote the further development of China's low-carbon economy.

scholarly journals Renewable Energy and Energy Security in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 6309-6315
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Security Indicators ◽  
The Impact

Robust economic growth, increasing population and personal consumption are the main drivers for the rapid increase of energy demand in Malaysia. Increasing demand has compounded the issue of national energy security due overdependence on fossil fuel, depleting indigenous domestic conventional energy resources which in turns has increased the country’s energy import dependence. In order to improve its energy security, Malaysia has seriously embarked on a renewable energy journey. Many initiatives on renewable energy have been introduced in the past decade. These strategies have resulted in the exploding growth of renewable energy deployment in Malaysia. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of renewable energy deployment on energy security. Secondary data was used to calculate the energy security indicators. The study also compared the results of applying different energy security indicators namely Availability, Applicability, Affordability and Acceptability dimension of energy resources. The evaluation shows that Malaysia will experience improvement in Energy Security, particularly on Availability, Affordability and Acceptability dimensions of energy security. This study suggests that energy security level could be further enhance by efficient utilization of energy, reducing carbon content of energy and facilitating low-carbon industries.

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