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Understanding energy consumption and carbon emissions in Europe: A focus on inequality issues
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier Ltd, 2019.
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Abstract
- The present research proposes an analysis on the inequality of the consumption of electricity, different typologies of primary energy, namely natural gas, coal and oil, and carbon emissions in the period 2008–2016 within European Union. A decomposition in within and between country groups on the basis of their GDP per capita is also developed, in order to identify the main contributions to the inequality. Furthermore, carbon emissions are also decomposed according to the Kaya identity with the aim to assess which are the main sources of inequality. The analysis shows that the principal source of inequality is represented by the differences in GDP, especially for the energy consumption; whereas carbon emissions evidence a stable level of inequality during the period of analysis.
- Subjects :
- Primary energy
Natural resource economics
020209 energy
Carbon emissions
Energy consumption
Inequality
Kaya identity
Theil index
Carbon emission
02 engineering and technology
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
020401 chemical engineering
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Per capita
Economics
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0204 chemical engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
European union
Civil and Structural Engineering
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Consumption (economics)
Mechanical Engineering
Building and Construction
Pollution
General Energy
Greenhouse gas
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....37083e0832b2c292bc4cc71da67fcb00