Invisible energy poverty? Analysing housing costs in Central and Eastern Europe

Karpinska, Lilia; Śmiech, Sławomir

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101670

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“…This state of affairs can be attributed to the insufficient use of renewable energy sources and low social awareness of energy poverty prevention. Particulate matter, which is a measure of air pollution, is produced, among others, by the burning of solid fuels in households [73]. The complex interactions between residential energy consumption, climate change and thermal performance of buildings in Eastern Europe have been identified in studies by Urge-Vorsatz and Tirado-Herrero [74].…”

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The Role of Renewable Energy Sources in Alleviating Energy Poverty in Households in Poland

2021

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Energy poverty is a problem that affects all member states of the European Union to a varying degree, including Poland, where about 9% of the population is at risk of energy poverty. The article aims to show the changes in energy poverty in Poland in 2010–2018. The specific goal, however, is to evaluate government measures aimed at reducing energy poverty through investments based on renewable energy sources. To present changes in the level of energy poverty in 2010–2018, the authors proposed a new synthetic measure that unifies several different measures used by researchers and allows for a comprehensive assessment of this phenomenon. The conducted research showed that in 2010–2018 there was a slow but visible decrease in the level of energy poverty in Poland. In addition, the article indicates investments in renewable energy sources that may have a positive impact on reducing the scale of energy poverty in Poland. The programs implemented with national and EU public funds, which finance investments in renewable energy sources in Poland, are also presented.

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“…Second, it can identify the leading influential factors that affect the embedded carbon emissions and rank their importance according to the estimations and the data. Therefore, it provides greater flexibility of the models [ 47 , 57 ]. By applying the LASSO models, this article is capable of further analyzing the predominant factors and identifying industrial heterogeneities in determining the export embodied carbon emissions of China.…”

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“…Particularly, the objective function of the LASSO model is to find the minimum number of independent variables, which is different from other traditional regression approaches (see Equation (7)). By setting the adjustment parameter

, we can achieve an acceptable level of information loss and retain only those variables which are the most valuable in the model [ 57 ]. When the distribution of the independent variables is unknown, the common methods for solving the adjustment parameters are the Cross-validation method and the Generalized Cross-validation method [ 47 ].…”

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Heterogeneous Driving Factors of Carbon Emissions Embedded in China’s Export: An Application of the LASSO Model

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With the steady growth of CO2 emissions embedded in trade, the driving forces of emissions have attracted extensive attention. Most of the literature has verified a bundle of the influential factors; however, further analyses are necessary to understand the predominant and heterogeneous driving factors in different economies and/or industries. Accordingly, by applying the multiregional input–output (MRIO) model, this article firstly evaluates the embodied carbon emissions of China’s export from 1992 to 2020 in total volumes and by 14 industries. Then, the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) estimations allow us to discover that urbanization, technology update and gross domestic product (GDP) are the leading three prioritizing factors in generating China’s export emissions. Interestingly, this paper discovers that raising the proportion of female parliamentarians contributes to an abatement of emissions. Furthermore, the empirical results suggest that the heterogeneities of those factors do exist among industries. For example, the percentage of females in parliaments turns out to have a larger effect among labor-intensive industries only. In facing with rapid globalization and economic development of China, this paper provides important policy implications towards specific industries in terms of mitigating trade emissions. It guides policy-makers to achieve “carbon neutrality” by avoiding carbon leakage in net-export countries such as China.

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“…Furthermore, the completion of Nord Stream 2 may challenge the European Union's principles in terms of solidarity and trust [100], complicating the energy policy and management in Central and Eastern Europe and policy relations inside the Union itself. Central and Eastern European countries have an acute problem of energy poverty, in which about a fourth of the population is exposed to hidden energy shortages [101]. This is especially true in the case of Ukraine.…”

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Energy Re-Shift for an Urbanizing World

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This essay considers the rural-to-urban transition and correlates it with urban energy demands. Three distinct themes are inspected and interrelated to develop awareness for an urbanizing world: internal urban design and innovation, technical transition, and geopolitical change. Data were collected on the use of energy in cities and, by extension, nation states over the last 30 years. The urban population boom continues to pressure the energy dimension with heavily weighted impacts on less developed regions. Sustainable urban energy will need to reduce resource inputs and environmental impacts and decouple economic growth from energy consumption. Fossil fuels continue to be the preferred method of energy for cities; however, an increased understanding is emerging that sustainable energy forms can be implemented as alternatives. Key to this transition will be the will to invest in renewables (i.e., solar, wind, hydro, tidal, geothermal, and biomass), efficient infrastructure, and smart eco-city designs. This essay elucidates how the technical transition of energy-friendly technologies focuses on understanding the changes in the energy mix from non-renewable to renewable. Smart electricity storage grids with artificial intelligence can operate internationally and alleviate some geopolitical barriers. Energy politics is shown to be a problematic hurdle with case research examples specific to Central and Eastern Europe. The energy re-shift stressed is a philosophical re-thinking of modern cities as well as a new approach to the human-energy relationship.

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Invisible energy poverty? Analysing housing costs in Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 65 publications

References 34 publications

The Role of Renewable Energy Sources in Alleviating Energy Poverty in Households in Poland

The Role of Renewable Energy Sources in Alleviating Energy Poverty in Households in Poland

Heterogeneous Driving Factors of Carbon Emissions Embedded in China’s Export: An Application of the LASSO Model

Energy Re-Shift for an Urbanizing World

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