Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be traced to five economic sectors: energy,
industry, buildings, transport and AFOLU (agriculture, forestry and other land uses). In this …

For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource
use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been reduced through better …

Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of'decoupling'; that is,
they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and …

This paper examines the causal relationships between economic growth, energy
consumption and carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions in high-income and upper-middle …

The paper proposes a new perspective in the environmental and resource economics
literature by examining innovation (measured by R&D expenditures), FDI (measured by …

To date there has been an absence of cross-country empirical studies on the efficacy of
carbon pricing. In this paper we present estimates of the contribution of carbon pricing to …

We find that electricity use and access are strongly correlated with economic development,
as theory would suggest. Despite large empirical literatures and suggestive case evidence …

We revisit the concept of energy poverty by considering population's access to energy
consumption. We stress critical relevant linkages including (i) economic growth and energy …

For the world's 20 largest emitters, we use a simple trend/cycle decomposition to provide
evidence of decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and output in richer nations …

Our work provides a comprehensive investigation of the coupling between the efficiency of
economic growth and the efficiency of carbon emissions reduction in China, and makes a …