Employment from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Tunisia – New Insights, New Results

Lehr, Ulrike; Mönnig, Anke; Missaoui, Rafik; Marrouki, Sami; Salem, Ghazi Ben

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2016.07.174

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“…The unemployment rate is considered as an indicator of the economic motives which may underlie local authority decisions to promote these kinds of energy policy (Sànchez-Braza and Pablo-Romero, 2014). In this case, the promotion of renewable and energy efficiency policies is a job creation engine, which can boost economic well-being, as demonstrated by Lehr et al (2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This legislative process was helped by the reform of the Constitution in 2001, which gave greater policy autonomy to Regions and local authorities. 5 There are many papers in the literature studying the consequences of the adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures (Lehemann, 2012; Sánchez-Braza and Pablo-Romero, 2014; Lehr et al, 2016), but only few analyze the direct impact of this kind of intervention on environmental degradation (see, for example, Blesl et al, 2007;McCollum et al, 2012, Comodi et al, 2012Bellocchi et al 2018). These works usually use various simulation models, and alternative energy scenarios are built.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Do Sustainable Energy Policies Matter for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Baiardi

2019

SSRN Journal

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Yes, they matter. To reply to this question, we assess the impact of energy efficiency and renewable energy policies on six different air pollutants: carbon dioxide (CO 2), methane (CH 4), nitrous oxides (N 2 O), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), nitrogen oxides (NO x) and sulphur dioxide (SO 2) in the case of the Italian provinces in the decade 2005-2015. The empirical analysis is performed in a panel data context by means of propensity score matching with multiple treatment, since our framework is characterized by the presence of two treatments, corresponding to the two different energy policies analyzed, i.e. energy efficiency policy and renewable policy. These two policies can be applied by each province as mutually exclusive strategies or as joint strategies. Our results show that renewable policies are the most effective in terms of climate goals especially when implemented on a local scale, while energy efficiency policies alone are ineffective. Moreover, the success of these policies depends on the type of pollutant to be reduced. Finally, we note that the effect of these two policies was reinforced by the counter-cyclical fiscal policies implemented to contrast the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.

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Do Sustainable Energy Policies Matter for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Baiardi

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…Locally accumulated know-how can create an exportable industrial segment, which can even become a determinant part of the national economy (such as in Spain, Denmark, or Germany). Additionally, production aiming at foreign market has a multiplicative effect on employment, rather than as if it aimed at domestic markets alone (Bezdek, 2009;Lehra et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Frankfurt_School-UNEP_Centre/BNEF (2015), Smartinvest (2015), IRENA (2016a), and Christensen and Hain (2017) analysed the renewable energy investment opportunities. The employment impacts caused by renewables were examined by Bezdek (2009), Lehra et al (2016), UCSUSA (2013), Zhao and Luo (2017), Garrett-Peltier (2017), and Sari and Akkaya (2016). Silva et al (2016), Tóth (2014), Mathiesen et al (2011), andKumar (2016) investigated the role of renewable energies in the security of energy supply.…”

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Justifiable Renewable Energy Usage from an Economic Angle

Csuvár

2017

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Economics and Business

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Abstract.Worldwide, there is a huge demand for the application of renewable energy technologies mainly due to the current environmental problems that mostly originated from our fossil-based energy system. This study is aiming at presenting areas which require a bigger share of renewables from the global energy mix but only for economic reasons. We highlight that these alternatives can bear with advantageous economic effects compared to the non-renewable ones. We take into account renewables-based business opportunities, and then we discuss the positive effects of renewables on economic development. Finally, we look at the issuant security of energy supply and talk about benefi cial labor market impacts caused by renewable energies.

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“…Such likely impact has already been simulated and analyzed by several researchers (National Academy of Science 2010; Vezmar 2014; IRENA 2016; Lehr et al 2016;Schwerhoff and Sy 2017;York and McGee 2017). Due to this promising development, there is increasing investment in renewable energy.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%