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Is energy efficiency environmentally friendly?
- Source :
- Energy & Environment; 1999, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p313, 0p
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- This paper challenges the view that improving the efficiency of energy use will lead to a reduction in national energy consumption, and hence is an effective policy for reducing CO<subscript>2</subscript> emissions. Itargues that improving energy efficiency lowers the implicit price ofenergy and hence make its use more affordable, thus leading to greater use. The paper presents the views of economists, as well as green critics of 'efficiency' and the 'dematerialization' thesis. The paperargues that a more effective CO<subscript>2</subscript> policy is to concentrateon shifting to non-fossil fuel fuels, like renewables, subsidized through a carbon tax. Ultimately what is needed, to limit energy consumption, is energy conservation not energy efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CARBON dioxide
ENERGY conservation
ENERGY consumption
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0958305X
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Energy & Environment
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8438072