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Can declining energy intensity mitigate climate change? Decomposition and meta-regression results
Drawing on the Kaya identity, we assess the role of the main driver of the decline in carbon intensity, namely the (economic) energy intensity. Using meta-significance testing for a sample of 44 studies, dealing with the causality between energy and GDP, we find that both variables are strongly coupled. Hence, after having exhausted energy savings from nonrecurring structural changes, the economic energy intensity may soon converge than being arbitrarily reducible. We suggest, therefore, not to rely on further reductions of economic energy intensity but rather to invest in the reduction of the carbon intensity of energy to mitigate climate change.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 1211
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Energy and the Macroeconomy
Valuation of Environmental Effects
- Subject
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Climate change mitigation
Kaya identity
Energy intensity
Meta-significance testing
Klimaschutz
Energiekonsum
Faktorintensität
Energieeinsparung
Treibhausgas-Emissionen
Meta-Analyse
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bruns, Stephan B.
Gross, Christian
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Max Planck Institute of Economics
- (where)
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Jena
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bruns, Stephan B.
- Gross, Christian
- Max Planck Institute of Economics
Time of origin
- 2012
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