Energy
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Working Paper Series
Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: Production-based versus Consumption-based Evidence on Decoupling
Mar 2016
We assess the Carbon-Kuznets-Curve hypothesis using internationally consistent and comparable production-based versus consumption-based CO2 emissions data for 40 countries (and 35 industries) during 1995-2007 from the World Input Output Database (WIOD).
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A Wake-Up Call on Climate Change and Clean Energy
Mar 30, 2016
A stark warning from Institute researchers on the probability that ‘2°C capital stock’ will be reached in 2017
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Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
Nov 6, 2015
Will environmental limits, including limits on the climate system, slow or even halt economic growth? If not, how will the nature of economic growth have to shift?
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Tackling the Energy & Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century
Jul 19, 2015
How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and economic development fit the facts?
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New Climate-Economic Thinking
Apr 21, 2015
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Finance, Sustainability and the Environment
Apr 10, 2015 | 07:15—08:45
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Energy and the Economics of Renewables
Mar 1, 2015
Is moving away from coal and into shale - rather than directly into renewables - a worthy move from an economic as well as environmental point of view?
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Years granted:
2015
German Energy Policy in the Age of Oil and Atoms, 1945–2000
This research project traces the history of German energy policy from 1945 to the present. It explores the political economy behind Germany’s transition from coal, to oil, to green energy, the crises driving these shifts, and the evolving efforts to balance affordability with security and environmental protection.
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New Research Shows Pollution Inequality in America is Even Worse Than Income Inequality
Sep 28, 2014
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The Environment and Innovation: What Are The Real Costs?
Apr 11, 2014 | 12:45—02:15
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What is Economic Success?
Oct 11, 2013
“You are now leaving the world as you know it.”
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Bring on the Bubble: William Janeway on the Future of Green Technologies
Sep 4, 2013
Where will today’s innovation come from?
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Conference paper
Material intensity, productivity and economic growth
Apr 2012
Many models of economic growth exclude materials from the production function. Growing environmental pressures and resource prices suggest that this may be increasingly inappropriate.
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Conference paper
Moving Towards Climate Justice: Overcoming Barriers to Change
Apr 2012
The present paradox, as ecological economist Bill Rees is fond of putting it, is simple yet profoundly troubling: “The ecologically necessary is politically infeasible, but the politically feasible is ecologically irrelevant.”