Can declining energy intensity mitigate climate change? Decomposition and meta-regression results

Arbeitspapier

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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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 1211

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Survey Methods; Sampling Methods ; Energy and the Macroeconomy ; Valuation of Environmental Effects
• Thema: Climate change mitigation ; Kaya identity ; Energy intensity ; Meta-significance testing ; Klimaschutz ; Energiekonsum ; Faktorintensität ; Energieeinsparung ; Treibhausgas-Emissionen ; Meta-Analyse

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bruns, Stephan B. ; Gross, Christian
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/88250
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ