Is there a turning point in the relationship between income and energy use and/or carbon emissions?

Richmond, Amy K.; Kaufmann, Robert K.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.01.011

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“…Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations (Richmond and Kaufmann, 2006). While economic growth is a key driver of emissions (Sathaye et al, 2007) it could yet evolve in distinctly different directions in future development paths.…”

Section: Economic and Social Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated scenarios of energy-related CO2 emissions in Ireland: A multi-sectoral analysis to 2020

O’Mahony¹,

Zhou

Sweeney

2013

Ecological Economics

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Section: Economic and Social Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated scenarios of energy-related CO2 emissions in Ireland: A multi-sectoral analysis to 2020

O’Mahony¹,

Zhou

Sweeney

2013

Ecological Economics

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“…This general relation is consistent with empirical comparisons across nations. Countries that produce large quantities of goods and services consume large amounts of energy while nations that produce smaller amounts of goods and services consume smaller amounts of energy, e.g., [6,7]. This same relation holds over time.…”

Section: The Role Of Energy In Economic Activitymentioning

confidence: 55%

The End of Cheap Oil: Economic, Social, and Political Change in the US and Former Soviet Union

Kaufmann

2014

Energies

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I use the quality and quantity of energy flows to interpret economic, social, and political changes in the US and Former Soviet Union. The economic successes of both the former Soviet Union (FSU) and the US reflect an abundant supply of high quality energy. This abundance ended in the 1970s in the US and the 1980s in the Former Soviet Union. In the US, the end of cheap oil caused labor productivity to stagnate, which stopped on-going growth in wages and family incomes. To preserve the American Dream, which holds that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it, women entered the workforce, income was transferred from saving to consumption, the US economy changed from a net creditor to a net debtor, and debt held by families and the Federal government increased. Despite efforts to hide the income effects, the end of cheap oil also is responsible for increasing income inequality. In the FSU, the end of abundant energy supplies meant that allocating the energy surplus among the domestic economy, subsidized exports to Eastern Europe, and hard currency sales to the West became a zero sum game. This contributed to the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) alliance and the FSU. If the US is able to extricate itself from personal and governmental debt, solving the social and political concerns about inequality is the next formidable challenge posed by the end of cheap oil.

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“…Others have found emissions turning points within the sample range but at income levels at or above $10,000-out of reach, at least in the near term, of most developing countries (Galeotti & Lanza, 1999;Galeotti, Lanza, & Pauli, 2001;Schamlensee, Stoker, & Judson, 1998;Dijgraaf & Volleberg, 2001). More recent research provides mixed evidence of an EKC for carbon emissions; namely, an EKC relationship was found to exist only for OECD countries, with non-OECD nations showing a positive relationship between carbon emissions and income (Galeotti, Lanza, & Pauli, 2006;Richmond & Kaufmann, 2006). This empirical literature can be critiqued on a number of grounds.…”

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confidence: 95%

Debt, democratization, and development in Latin America: How policy can affect global warming

Aubourg

Good

Krutilla

2007

J Policy Anal Manage

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Is there a turning point in the relationship between income and energy use and/or carbon emissions?

Cited by 455 publications

References 17 publications

Integrated scenarios of energy-related CO2 emissions in Ireland: A multi-sectoral analysis to 2020

Integrated scenarios of energy-related CO2 emissions in Ireland: A multi-sectoral analysis to 2020

The End of Cheap Oil: Economic, Social, and Political Change in the US and Former Soviet Union

Debt, democratization, and development in Latin America: How policy can affect global warming

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