Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuel Use—Evidence from 141 Countries in the 25-Year Perspective

Frodyma, Katarzyna; Papież, Monika; Śmiech, Sławomir

doi:10.3390/en13246671

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“…Secondly, the EU does not have its own fossil fuels, and this means that it is highly dependent on external suppliers of energy resources (such as Russia). Thirdly, currently in the world economy, especially in highly developed countries, there is a shift from the use of fossil fuel towards green energy [2,3], what per se is very challenging for some countries in terms of implementation of EU policies [4][5][6] and still growing importance of the solar photovoltaic sector in the EU [7]. Fourth, the economic interests and the raison d'etre, and the geopolitical circumstances of individual member states are divergent and sometimes even mutually exclusive [8].…”

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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Energy issues are sensitive for the four Visegrad countries as European Union (EU) member states; thus, this area’s convergence might be problematic for these countries. There is a clear research gap concerning the processes of Europeanization of the energy policy in the Visegrad countries. This article aims to identify and evaluate the progress of four Visegrad countries (V4) in implementing the EU energy goals in the context of the Europeanization. The article uses three main methods: Hellwig’s method, Kendall’s rank concordance coefficient, and k-means clustering. These calculations will allow one to study the Europeanization processes, which means checking the gamma convergence. For calculations, we use the available statistical data from Eurostat for the years 2005–2018. Poland and other Central European countries, including Czechia, and Hungary, largely depend on coal for their energy needs. The empirical results have shown that there have been no significant changes in the classification of EU countries in terms of their fulfillment of the EU climate and energy targets in the analyzed period. This is the case in all EU member states, including the Visegrad Group countries, but except for Poland. This means that the level of Europeanization of the energy policy and its effectiveness is similar in all member states except for Poland, which is becoming a kind of the exception. Throughout the investigating period, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia were close to meeting the set targets and could be rated high compared to the EU countries. Poland, especially since 2015, has been noticeably and increasingly distanced from the other V4 countries. It can be perceived as a gradual drift away from Europeanization of the EU climate and energy policy in Poland.

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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“…As industry develops, it requires greater energy. In the last 2 decades, Frodyma et al (2020) and Scheel et al (2020) predicts that developed countries will actually be implementing of "decoupling" which is experimenting with separating economic growth from energy needs. This scenario is an effort to reduce CO 2 in preserving the environment (Guo et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2018).…”

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Power Generation Infrastructure and its Effect on Electric Energy Consumption: Context in Indonesia, 2013–2020

Hasid

Mire²,

Rochaida³

et al. 2023

IJEEP

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For centuries, humans have continued to deplete natural resources. The transportation sector is claimed to be the main culprit in wasting fossil energy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of Fossil Fuels Electricity (FFE), Wind Electricity (WE), Solar Electricity (SE), Hydroelectricity (H), and Geothermal Electricity (GE) on Access to Electricity (AE) in Indonesia. The collection of data obtained from the Global Economy report, processed using time-series regression. Empirical testing clarifies that the increase in the variables of FFE, WE, SE, H, and GE, has increased AE in the short term. The more FFE, WE, SE, H, and GE increase 1 percent, the more AE increases in the long run. During 2013–2020, FFE as a variable that has a dominant effect on AE, where the nature of this energy is very limited, the frequency of its use is considered. Apart from the role of FFE which is crucial for basic human needs, it is necessary to restructure the rules that regulate, monitoring, and revitalize power generation systems based on natural gas, oil, and coal.

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“…Decoupling is widely used in economics. For example, it can be used to measure the decoupling of economic growth from energy consumption [28][29][30], the decoupling of economic growth from household consumption [31,32], the decoupling of economic growth from fuel consumption [33,34], and the decoupling of economic development from environmental pollution [35,36].…”

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Decoupling Economic Growth from Carbon Emissions in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China: From the Coordinated Regional Development Perspective

Fu,

Wang,

Guo

2024

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Decoupling economic growth from carbon emissions is crucial for combating the climate crisis and promoting green development. However, a uniform approach to climate mitigation exacerbates regional disharmony. As a microcosm of China’s regional heterogeneity, the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is helpful in exploring regional collaborative climate governance. This paper uses the Thiel index, the Tapio decoupling model, and the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) decomposition approach to explore the decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions in YREB from 2005 to 2019. Results indicate that the carbon intensity difference is mainly from the difference within middle-rising provinces (MRP) and western less-developed provinces (WLP). YREB exhibits strong decoupling overall, but it is not sustained. The economic growth effect significantly promotes carbon emissions, which is more prominent in MRP. The energy intensity effect plays a vital role in restraining carbon emissions. The emission factor effect signals an improved energy structure in WLP. Regional coordination is needed to achieve green development; thus, provinces should set differentiated carbon emission reduction targets, and more potent tools are recommended in major carbon emitters.

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Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuel Use—Evidence from 141 Countries in the 25-Year Perspective

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

Power Generation Infrastructure and its Effect on Electric Energy Consumption: Context in Indonesia, 2013–2020

Decoupling Economic Growth from Carbon Emissions in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China: From the Coordinated Regional Development Perspective

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