scholarly journals Low Carbon Economy Policy in Poland: an Example of the Impact of Europeanisation

Equilibrium ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-39
Author(s):  
Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Greenhouse Gases Emissions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Polish Economy ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

Poland has made a commitment to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and by participating in the climate policy of the European Union (EU). EUClimate and Energy Package (CEP), which was negotiated in 2008 and has been successively introduced into the EUlegal system. The CEP introduces much stricter require­ments for the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions and imposes higher costs on the adjust­ment of Polish energy sector and other sectors of Polish economy to the requirements of the EUlaw. The influence of the EUon the Member States during the course of European integra­tion is described in the literature of the subject as europeanisation. In this study Iwill analyse the influence on the policy of the Polish government with respect to stimulating the develop­ment of low carbon economy (including industry).

scholarly journals Financial Resources for the Investments in Renewable Self-Consumption in a Circular Economy Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6838
Author(s):  
Sabina Scarpellini ◽  
José Ángel Gimeno ◽  
Pilar Portillo-Tarragona ◽  
Eva Llera-Sastresa
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transition ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Carbon Economy

The availability of financial resources has been pointed out as one of the determining factors for the investment in renewable self-consumption solutions for the energy transition in the European Union. In economic terms, the barriers to investment are related to low levels of profitability and difficulties in accessing financing in some European regions. These barriers must be overcome to foster a sustainable energy transition. However, this topic of analysis is still underexplored in the literature to date. This study provides a characterisation of the financial resources applied to self-consumption from an economic–financial approach to the decision-making investors in a case study in Spain from a novel focus on the subject. The relevance of alternative financial resources as a mechanism to reduce existing barriers is revealed through the analysis of the active role that installers play in making investment decisions, facilitating the growth of self-consumption. The alternative financial channels and the bank intermediation for renewables are topics of interest to promote the energy transition towards a low-carbon economy.

scholarly journals The “New” Environmental Policy Of The European Union: A Path To Development Of A Circular Economy And Mitigation Of The Negative Effects Of Climate Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zofia Wysokińska
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Carbon Economy ◽  
The Eu

This paper analyses the evolution of the new environmental policy of the European Union in the context of the efforts undertaken to moderate the negative effects of climate change. It describes all the activities in the European Union designed to implement new tools of the EU environmental policy, such as low carbon economy technologies, tools that improve the efficiency of managing the limited natural resources, the environmentally friendly transport package, etc. All of them are aimed at laying the foundations of the circular economy, which may also be referred to as a closed-loop economy, i.e., an economy that does not generate excessive waste and whereby any waste becomes a resource.

Construction of Rural Financial System Based on the Concept of Low Carbon Economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 4478-4481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Yu
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Development Path ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Carbon Economy

Based on rural as research object, this paper mainly combines the local rural development present situation to measure rural carbon emissions, and with the help of Kaya model respectively. The rural residents' energy consumption and carbon emissions are generated by the impact factors of agricultural production LMDI decomposition. And it established the cointegration model of influence factors of the carbon in the empirical analysis. It seek a accord with the actual situation of rural low carbon economy development path.

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.

Energy Arbitration and Emerging Claims: A Post-COVID-19 New Normal?

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
David Yibakuo Amakiri ◽  
Solomon Ugochukwu Ezike
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Legal Risks ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

The responses of government to the novel coronavirus has snowballed into circumstances that can aptly be termed a new normal likewise are the ongoing efforts to transition to a low carbon economy. The effect of these combinations is a paradigm shift in the energy sector and the investments that underpin the linkages. Many aspects of these investments in the energy sector have also been thrown into murky waters arising from the hardship operators face now and the consequent inability to perform agreed obligations adequately. In a post-COVID-19 world, these scenarios pose legal risks and will be subject of energy arbitration proceedings. This article highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the energy industry, the claims emerging from it, and the repercussions for arbitration of energy disputes. It also highlights how these changes affect the quest for a just transition to a low-carbon economy.

scholarly journals Can Smart City Policy Facilitate the Low-Carbon Economy in China? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on Pilot City

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Shuangshuang Fan ◽  
Shengnan Peng ◽  
Xiaoxue Liu
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Dynamic Effect ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
City Policy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

This paper studies the impact of the implementation of smart city policy (SCP) on the development of low-carbon economy (LCE) in China. For this purpose, we developed a nonconvex meta-frontier data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to measure LCE and used the differences-in-difference (DID) analysis method in the econometric model to empirically analyze the impact of SCP on LCE, using the dataset of 230 cities from 2005 to 2018. The results show that the implementation of SCP can significantly improve the LCE of cities, and the dynamic effect test presents that the promotion of smart cities to low-carbon economy increases with time. In addition, SCP promotes the development of LCE by optimizing government functions and improving the efficiency of governance and the degree of implementation openness. But there is heterogeneity between different cities as follows: the implementation of SCP has a more significant effect on the promotion of LCE in central and western regions in China and large-scale cities and cities without strict environmental protection planning. Finally, the robustness test verifies the reliability of the experimental data again and puts forward conclusions and policy recommendations.

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 The Good, the Bad and the Uncertain: Bioenergy use in the European Union

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Philippidis ◽  
Heleen Bartelings ◽  
John Helming ◽  
Robert M'barek ◽  
Edward Smeets ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium Model ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Advanced Biofuels ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Impact

As the EU is moving towards a low carbon economy and seeks to further develop its renewable energy policy, this paper quantitatively investigates the impact of plausible energy market reforms from the perspective of bio-renewables. Employing a state-of-the-art biobased variant of a computable general equilibrium model, this study assesses the perceived medium-term benefits, risks and trade-offs which arise from an advanced biofuels plan, two exploratory scenarios of a more 'sustainable' conventional biofuels plan and a 'no-mandate' scenario. Consistent with more recent studies, none of the scenarios considered present significant challenges to EU food-security or agricultural land usage. An illustrative advanced biofuels plan simulation requires non-trivial public support to implement whilst a degree of competition for biomass with (high-value) advanced biomass material industries is observed. On the other hand, it significantly alleviates land use pressures, whilst lignocellulose biomass prices are not expected to increase to unsustainable levels. Clearly, these observations are subject to assumptions on technological change, sustainable biomass limits, expected trends in fossil fuel prices and EU access to third-country trade. With these same caveats in mind, the switch to increased bioethanol production does not result in significant market tensions in biomass markets.

Study on the Impact of the Construction Industry by the Development of Globalization Low-Carbon Economy and the Changing Pattern of International Competition

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 3983-3987
Author(s):  
Hong Jun Jia
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Core Competitiveness ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

Low-carbon economic development strategy of globalization on the construction of deep-seated changes in production methods proposed new requirements. Requiring the construction industry to enhance output level, to improve the output value of profits, and strengthen the quality of the industry, expand the international market, and enhance core competitiveness. In this paper, an in-depth analysis on the challenges posed by low-carbon economy to the construction industry and the issues caused by international financial market volatility was made. And recommendations on strengthening the construction industry production relations, promoting the progress and improvement of the construction industry production methods and leading the sustainable development of the construction industry were proposed.

The Performance and Development Trends of Low-Carbon Textile Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 1421-1424
Author(s):  
Yu Ying Liu ◽  
Da Li Ma
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Materials ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Consumption ◽  
Hemp Fiber ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Textile Materials ◽  
Colored Cotton ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

The impact of the deteriorating environmental issues on human survival and constraints on social development promotes awakening of environmental awareness, while the expanding of low-carbon consumption market and low-carbon technology revolution triggered by low-carbon economy model, has established a new direction for the garment industry, that is, low-carbon fashion. In order to comply with the objectives of environmental sustainable development, exploiting environmental and low-carbon textile materials has become one of the trends for textiles in 21st century. Regarding carbon materials as the core, this paper firstly discusses the concept and research significance of low-carbon materials, then enumerates several new low-carbon textile materials’ performance and applications: hemp fiber, colored cotton fabric, bamboo fiber, chitin fiber, etc. Through these listed above, it indicates the trend for low-carbon textile materials.

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