European energy policy—A review

Kanellakis, Marinos; Martinopoulos, Georgios; Zachariadis, Theodoros

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.08.008

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“…Our study aims to contribute to the understandings on the impacts of urbanization on energy intensity, and gain insights for future urbanization policies, and contribute to the development of climate change policies in which urbanization can be taken into account [22].…”

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“…Our paper provides novel insights to the urbanization-energy literature by exploring the impact of urbanization on energy intensity in Saudi Arabia. Analyzing how urbanization affects energy intensity is an interesting topic because reducing energy intensity can help mitigate the impacts of climate change through the implementation of policies based on energy efficiency and savings [22]. Income, industrialization, services share in GDP, and urbanization elasticities of energy intensity will be determined in the short and long term.…”

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The Impact of Urbanization on Energy Intensity in Saudi Arabia

Belloumi

Alshehry

2016

Sustainability

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This paper investigates the long-term and causal relationship between energy intensity, real GDP per capita, urbanization and industrialization in Saudi Arabia over the period 1971-2012 using the breakpoint unit root tests developed by Perron (1989) and the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model bounds testing to cointegration proposed by Pesaran et al. (2001) and employing a modified version of the Granger causality test proposed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995). Additionally, to test the robustness of the results, the fully modified ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, the dynamic OLS regression, and the Hansen test are used. Our results show that the variables are cointegrated when energy intensity is the dependent variable. It is also found that urbanization positively affects energy intensity in both the short term and the long term. Causality tests indicate that urbanization causes economic output that causes energy intensity in the long term. Our results do not support the urban compaction hypothesis where urban cities benefit from basic public services and economies of scale for public infrastructure. Therefore, measures that slow down the rapid urbanization process should be taken to reduce energy intensity in Saudi Arabia. In addition, reducing energy inefficiency in energy consumption should be a strategy to attain sustainable development in the near future in Saudi Arabia.

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The Impact of Urbanization on Energy Intensity in Saudi Arabia

Belloumi

Alshehry

2016

Sustainability

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“…Previous research has traced the evolution and changing context of energy policymaking in China (e.g., Cao and Bluth, 2013;Xia et al, 2011) and in the EU (e.g., Kanellakisa et al, 2013;Maltby, 2013). Building on these singlecountry/bloc case studies, one innovative aspect of this paper is that it compares the evolution of energy policy across both jurisdictions over time, drawing attention to changing patterns of divergence and convergence.…”

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Shifting policy priorities in EU-China energy relations: Implications for Chinese energy investments in Europe

Gippner

Torney

2017

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Highlights Compares dominant framings of energy policy in China and the European Union in the period 2005-2015.  Shows that there has been a convergence of policy frames between China and the EU over this period. Argues that this convergence of frames is a necessary but not sufficient condition for stimulating Chinese investment in EU clean technology sectors. Shows how trends in Chinese investments in the EU energy sector mirror the convergence in energy policy framings between China and the EU. AcknowledgementsThe

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“…In addition, in some studies [24], a European energy policy review concluded that there is a contradiction regarding the energy tax system and tax incentives that significantly influences the competitiveness of European industry.…”

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Environmental Tax Policy in Romania in the Context of the EU: Double Dividend Theory

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Abstract:In the last decade, environment protection gained much more significance in designing the economic policies in the European Union (EU) countries. There are many economic and policy differences between the European countries, despite of the harmonization process inside the EU area. The path of implementation of the environmental tax reforms in the EU countries differs greatly from one country to another and the effects of such taxation in the economic and environmental areas are manifold. The authors of this paper have agreed to undertake the task of testing the double dividend hypothesis of the environmental taxation in Romania (an energy-intensive country) versus the EU area as a whole, using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) techniques and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimations. Our findings show that this hypothesis is validated neither in Romania (in the economic growth area) nor in the EU area as a whole (in the unemployment area). Therefore, Romania cannot increase the level of the environmental tax for supporting economic growth, but it can grant environmental subsidies for decreasing the emissions and supporting the economic growth. This could be achieved by expanding the tax labor base and by collecting higher budgetary revenues to sustain such environmental subsidies. As far as the EU area is concerned, it is a necessary measure to continue the descending trend for the labor taxation to achieve the goal of improving the employment rate.

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European energy policy—A review

Cited by 144 publications

References 2 publications

The Impact of Urbanization on Energy Intensity in Saudi Arabia

The Impact of Urbanization on Energy Intensity in Saudi Arabia

Shifting policy priorities in EU-China energy relations: Implications for Chinese energy investments in Europe

Environmental Tax Policy in Romania in the Context of the EU: Double Dividend Theory

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