More than 80% of urban households in sub-Saharan Africa use charcoal as their main
source of cooking energy, and the demand is likely to increase for several decades …

Urban households in low-and middle-income countries (LAMICs) face the challenge of
finding affordable, reliable and sustainable cooking fuel supplies. Most city residents use …

What do we know about the size of the rebound effect, the well-known phenomenon that
improving energy efficiency may save less energy than expected due to a rebound of energy …

The rebound effect results in part from an increased consumption of energy services
following an improvement in the technical efficiency of delivering those services. This …

The TPA was set up to address key controversies in the energy field through comprehensive
assessments of the current state of knowledge. It aims to provide authoritative reports that …

The Jevons Paradox , which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in
relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to …

'The Jevons Paradox', which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in
relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to …

The conventional wisdom is that improving energy efficiency will lower energy use.
However, there is an extensive debate in the energy economics/policy literature concerning …

This paper brings attention to the fact that the energy demand frontier model introduced by
Filippini and Hunt (2011, 2012) is closely connected to the measurement of the so-called …

The phenomenon of rebound effects has sparked considerable academic, policy and press
debate in recent years over the effectiveness of energy efficiency policy. There has been a …