On implementation of Russia's obligations under the Paris agreement: Institutional, legal, international, and methodological aspects, problems and prospects for Russia's economy development

Subject. The article investigates the problems related to the implementation of Russia's obligations under the Paris Agreement. Objectives. The aim is to examine the possibilities of implementing Russia's obligations under the Paris Agreement, analyze institutional, legal, international, political and methodological aspects of fulfilling these obligations, identify problems and prospects for realizing the interests of Russian exporters in international markets, and opportunities for the development of economic and innovative potential, including the analysis of implementing the national climate doctrines in the field of greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Methods. The study employs methods of institutional, comparative, graphical, and statistical analysis, and methods of systematization and classification. Results. I established the degree of development of the institutional and legal framework for implementing climate agreements, characterized their international and political aspects, classified methodological problems of decision-making and performance of decarbonization programs, proved the need to renew production assets, and demonstrated the nature of implementation of national climate doctrines stimulating the development of innovations. Conclusions. The process of building the institutional and legal framework for regulating climate relations is not completed yet. A number of methodological problems hinder the achievement of fairness and objectivity of economic and political decision-making at the global and regional levels. The paper establishes a critical level of ageing the production capacities of Russian enterprises, and offers conditions and promising directions of the Russian economy development during energy transition.

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Financial decision making among older adults: The effects of self-reported knowledge and performance on the Iowa gambling task

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e621092012-170 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Cole ◽

Sara Shivapour ◽

Dan Shivapour ◽

Allison Kaup ◽

Mike Hernandez ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Decision Making ◽

Iowa Gambling Task ◽

Gambling Task ◽

Financial Decision Making ◽

Financial Decision ◽

And Performance

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Determinants and barriers of PV self-consumption in Spain from the perception of the installers for the promotion of distributed energy systems

ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ◽

10.3280/efe2020-001007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 153-169

Author(s):

José Ángel Gimeno ◽

Eva Llera Sastresa ◽

Sabina Scarpellini

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Low Carbon ◽

The European Union ◽

Distributed Energy ◽

Sustainable Solutions ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

Transition Scenario

Currently, self-consumption and distributed energy facilities are considered as viable and sustainable solutions in the energy transition scenario within the European Union. In a low carbon society, the exploitation of renewables for self-consumption is closely tied to the energy market at the territorial level, in search of a compromise between competitiveness and the sustainable exploitation of resources. Investments in these facilities are highly sensitive to the existence of favourable conditions at the territorial level, and the energy policies adopted in the European Union have contributed positively to the distributed renewables development and the reduction of their costs in the last decade. However, the number of the installed facilities is uneven in the European Countries and those factors that are more determinant for the investments in self-consumption are still under investigation. In this scenario, this paper presents the main results obtained through the analysis of the determinants in self-consumption investments from a case study in Spain, where the penetration of this type of facilities is being less relevant than in other countries. As a novelty of this study, the main influential drivers and barriers in self-consumption are classified and analysed from the installers' perspective. On the basis of the information obtained from the installers involved in the installation of these facilities, incentives and barriers are analysed within the existing legal framework and the potential specific lines of the promotion for the effective deployment of self-consumption in an energy transition scenario.

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Regulation of Electricity Storage, Intelligent Grids, and Clean Energies in an Open Market in Mexico

10.1093/oso/9780198822080.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

José Juan González Márquez ◽

Margarita González Brambila

Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Energy Supply ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Open Market ◽

Innovative Strategy ◽

Electricity Storage ◽

Storage Technologies

This chapter analyses the role of electricity storage as an innovative strategy to attain the Mexican Government’s goals regarding carbon dioxide emission reduction and energy transition. The survey includes the analysis of the different electricity storage technologies as well as the legal framework governing electricity storage as the fifth link of the energy supply chain from a comparative perspective. The authors discuss whether energy storage is a generation or a distribution/transmission asset. The chapter also analyses Mexico’s experiences in energy storage and briefly describes the way it is regulated in other jurisdictions. Finally, the authors propose the regulation of energy storage as a separate licensed activity.

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The Law & Politics of Brexit: Volume II

10.1093/oso/9780198848356.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

European Union ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

The European Union ◽

Trade Relations ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Uk ◽

Financial Settlement ◽

The Eu

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the withdrawal agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and the European Union to create the legal framework for Brexit. Building on a prior volume, it overviews the process of Brexit negotiations that took place between the UK and the EU from 2017 to 2019. It also examines the key provisions of the Brexit deal, including the protection of citizens’ rights, the Irish border, and the financial settlement. Moreover, the book assesses the governance provisions on transition, decision-making and adjudication, and the prospects for future EU–UK trade relations. Finally, it reflects on the longer-term challenges that the implementation of the 2016 Brexit referendum poses for the UK territorial system, for British–Irish relations, as well as for the future of the EU beyond Brexit.

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Renewable energy selection based on a new entropy and dissimilarity measure on an interval-valued neutrosophic set

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems ◽

10.3233/jifs-202571 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

ShuoYan Chou ◽

Truong ThiThuy Duong ◽

Nguyen Xuan Thao

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Membership Function ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽

Clean Energy ◽

Dissimilarity Measure ◽

Neutrosophic Set ◽

Trade Offs ◽

And Performance

Energy plays a central part in economic development, yet alongside fossil fuels bring vast environmental impact. In recent years, renewable energy has gradually become a viable source for clean energy to alleviate and decouple with a negative connotation. Different types of renewable energy are not without trade-offs beyond costs and performance. Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) has become one of the most prominent tools in making decisions with multiple conflicting criteria existing in many complex real-world problems. Information obtained for decision making may be ambiguous or uncertain. Neutrosophic is an extension of fuzzy set types with three membership functions: truth membership function, falsity membership function and indeterminacy membership function. It is a useful tool when dealing with uncertainty issues. Entropy measures the uncertainty of information under neutrosophic circumstances which can be used to identify the weights of criteria in MCDM model. Meanwhile, the dissimilarity measure is useful in dealing with the ranking of alternatives in term of distance. This article proposes to build a new entropy and dissimilarity measure as well as to construct a novel MCDM model based on them to improve the inclusiveness of the perspectives for decision making. In this paper, we also give out a case study of using this model through the process of a renewable energy selection scenario in Taiwan performed and assessed.

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A Multiple Criteria Decision Making Method to Weight the Sustainability Criteria of System Selection for Surface Mining

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14113066 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (11) ◽

pp. 3066

Author(s):

Michał Patyk ◽

Przemysław Bodziony ◽

Zbigniew Krysa

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Performance Assessment ◽

Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽

Surface Mining ◽

Open Pit ◽

Mining Equipment ◽

Surface Mines ◽

Mining Conditions ◽

And Performance ◽

Selection Of

Selection and assessment of mining equipment used in open pit rock mines relies chiefly on estimates of overall exploitation cost. The rational arrangement of mining equipment and systems comprising loading machines, haul trucks and crushing plants should be preceded by a thorough analysis of technical and economic aspects, such as investment outlays and the costs of further exploitation, which largely determine the costs of mining operations and the deposit value. Additionally, the operational parameters of the mining equipment ought to be considered. In this study, a universal set of evaluation criteria has been developed, and an evaluation method has been applied for the selection of surface mining equipment and the processing system to be operated in specific mining conditions, defined by the user. The objective of this study is to develop and apply the new methodology of multi-criteria selection of open pit rock mining equipment based on multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) procedures, to enable the optimization of loading, handling and crushing processes. The methodology, underpinned by the principles of MCDM, provides the dedicated ranking procedures, including the ELECTRE III. The applied methodology allows the alternative options (variants) to be ranked accordingly. Ultimately, a more universal methodology is developed, applicable in other surface mines where geological and mining conditions are similar. It may prove particularly useful in selection and performance assessment of mining equipment and process line configurations in mining of low-quality rock deposits. Therefore, we undertook to develop universal criteria and applications for the selection and performance assessment of process machines for surface mines, taking into account environmental aspects as well as deposit quality.

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Evaluation of the Legal Framework for Building Fire Safety Regulations in Spain

Buildings ◽

10.3390/buildings11020051 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

Amaya Osácar ◽

Juan Bautista Echeverria Trueba ◽

Brian Meacham

Keyword(s):

Fire Safety ◽

Risk Mitigation ◽

Fire Risk ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Regulatory Framework ◽

Existing Building ◽

Building Fire ◽

Safety Regulations ◽

And Performance ◽

The Ideal

There is a trend in Europe towards increasing the quality and performance of regulations. At the same time, regulatory failure has been observed in the area of building fire safety regulation in England and elsewhere. As a result, an analysis of the appropriateness of fire safety regulations in Spain is warranted, with the objective being to assess whether a suitable level of fire safety is currently being delivered. Three basic elements must be considered in such analysis: the legal and regulatory framework, the level of fire risk/safety of buildings that is expected and the level which actually results, and a suitable method of analysis. The focus of this paper is creating a legal and regulatory framework, in particular with respect to fire safety in buildings. Components of an ”ideal” building regulatory framework to adequately control fire risk are presented, the existing building regulatory framework is summarized, and an analysis of the gaps between the ideal and the existing systems is presented. It is concluded that the gaps between the ideal and the existing framework are significant, and that the current fire safety regulations are not appropriate for assuring delivery of the intended level of fire risk mitigation.

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CAN BAYESIAN METHODS MAKE DATA AND ANALYSES MORE RELEVANT TO DECISION MAKERS?

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care ◽

10.1017/s0266462301104101 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 114-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Steven H. Sheingold

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Bayesian Methods ◽

Paradigm Shift ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Critical Importance ◽

Bayesian Approaches ◽

Bayesian Analyses ◽

And Performance

Decision making in health care has become increasingly reliant on information technology, evidence-based processes, and performance measurement. It is therefore a time at which it is of critical importance to make data and analyses more relevant to decision makers. Those who support Bayesian approaches contend that their analyses provide more relevant information for decision making than do classical or “frequentist” methods, and that a paradigm shift to the former is long overdue. While formal Bayesian analyses may eventually play an important role in decision making, there are several obstacles to overcome if these methods are to gain acceptance in an environment dominated by frequentist approaches. Supporters of Bayesian statistics must find more accommodating approaches to making their case, especially in finding ways to make these methods more transparent and accessible. Moreover, they must better understand the decision-making environment they hope to influence. This paper discusses these issues and provides some suggestions for overcoming some of these barriers to greater acceptance.

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