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Economics of Energy and Climate Change: Origins, Developments and Growth
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-09-09)
This paper briefly highlights some of the most influential ideas in the literature on the economics of energy and (energy-related) climate change. This paper will use bibliometric evidence to examine the trends in related ...
Payments for Water Ecosystem Services in Latin America: Evidence from Reported Experience
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10-10)
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are attracting increasing interest as policy mechanisms to improve conservation and sustainable development outcomes. PES initiatives aim to reach mutually beneficial agreements ...
Budget-Neutral Financing to Unlock Energy Savings Potential: An Analysis of the ESCO Model in Barcelona
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
The objective of this article is to introduce an increasingly popular business model known as the Energy Service Company (ESCO) model and bring to light the principal barriers to its widespread implementation both ...
The Economic Impacts of Biodiversity Policy for Improving the Climate Regulating Services Provided by EU Natura 2000 Habitats
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
We adopted the state-of-the-art methodologies to quantify the total carbon stocked by Natura 2000 habitats as well as to project the future changes of carbon stocks influenced by alternative policy options for the management ...
Valuation of wind energy projects: A real options approach
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
This paper addresses the valuation of an operating wind farm and the …nite-lived option to invest in such a farm under di¤erent reward and/or support schemes. They range from a feed-in tari¤ to a premium on top of ...
Development of a new modelling framework to estimate the C footprint from Basque dairy farms
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
There is world-wide concern for the contribution of dairy farming to global warming. However, there is still a need to improve the quantification of the C-footprint of dairy farming systems under different production systems ...
Optimal Investment in Energy Efficiency under Uncertainty
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-11-18)
This paper deals with the optimal time to invest in an energy efficiency improvement. There is a broad consensus that such investments quickly pay for themselves in lower energy bills and spared emission allowances. However, ...
Linking Reduced Deforestation and a Global Carbon Market: Impacts on Costs, Financial Flows, and Technological Innovation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-07)
Discussions of tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from ...
Carbon leakage and the future of Old Industrial Regions after Copenhagen
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-03-03)
CO2 prices will continue to differ from one country to another for a long time, even if a global post-Kyoto agreement is achieved in the near future. The non-homogeneous nature of climate policies may decrease the ...
The Slow Search for Solutions: Lessons from Historical Energy Transitions by Sector and Service
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-04-07)
This paper reviews past energy transitions by sector and service to identify features that may be useful for anticipating future transitions. As the United Kingdom was the first to make the transition from traditional ...