BackBrowsing by Author "González-Eguino, Mikel"
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Aviso a navegantes: informe del IPCC sobre mitigación del cambio climático
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-05-13)Despite the proliferation of climate change plans and strategies, global emissions have accelerated over the last decade. *If the present trends continue, temperatures will have risen between 3.7 and 4.3ºC by the end of ... -
Budget-Neutral Financing to Unlock Energy Savings Potential: An Analysis of the ESCO Model in Barcelona
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)The objective of this article is to introduce an increasingly popular business model known as the Energy Service Company (ESCO) model and bring to light the principal barriers to its widespread implementation both ... -
Carbon leakage and the future of Old Industrial Regions
González-Eguino, Mikel; Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto
; Galarraga, Ibon (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-08-07)
CO2 prices will continue to differ from one country to another even if a global post-Kyoto agreement is achieved. This may decrease the competitiveness of some industries. One of most exposed industries in Europe is iron ... -
Carbon leakage and the future of Old Industrial Regions after Copenhagen
González-Eguino, Mikel; Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto; Galarraga, Ibon (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-03-03)
CO2 prices will continue to differ from one country to another for a long time, even if a global post-Kyoto agreement is achieved in the near future. The non-homogeneous nature of climate policies may decrease the ... -
Competitividad y fuga de carbono: el caso de la economía vasca
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-07-07)El cambio climático y la elevada dependencia de las energías fósiles hacen necesario avanzar hacia una economía baja en carbono. Un futuro sin “carbono” supone una revolución energética y económica sin precedentes que ... -
Cost effectiveness of a combination of instruments for global warming: a quantitative approach for Spain
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-04-28)There is a considerable body of research about the use and design of market instruments for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. However, discussion of the combination of instruments and their possible interactions is in ... -
Cost effectiveness of a combination of instruments for global warming: a quantitative approach for Spain
(Springer, 2012-03)Climate change is an important environmental problem and one whose economic implications are many and varied. This paper starts with the presumption that mitigation of greenhouse gases is a necessary policy that has to be ... -
Environmental Fiscal Reform and Unemployment in Spain
Markandya, Anil; Escapa García, Marta; González-Eguino, Mikel (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-04-02)
The theoretical literature relevant to the relationship between environmental taxation and employment creation is centred on the suggestion by Pearce (1991) that environmental taxation could lead to a “double dividend†... -
Environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain in the presence of an informal sector
Markandya, Anil; Escapa García, Marta; González-Eguino, Mikel (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10-26)
This policy briefing reports the results obtained in two recent papers (Markandya et al 2012 and Gonzalez-Eguino et al 2012) where the role of Enviromental Fiscal Reform (EFR) is revisited for the case of Spain. We analyse ... -
Evaluating the role of energy efficiency labels in the prices of household appliances: the case of refrigerators
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-04-28)This article uses an statisticalmethod to estimate the price premium paid for the highest energy-efficiency label (A+) in the refrigerators market of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The estimated figure is 8.9% ... -
Evaluating the Role of Energy Efficiency Labels: the Case of Dish Washers
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-05-17)This article uses the hedonic approach to estimate how much is paid for the energy efficiency label on the dishwasher market in Spain. The estimated figure is 15.6% of the final price. This accounts for about 80€ of ... -
Evaluating the role of energy efficiency labels: the case of Dish Washers
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-09-23)This article uses the hedonic approach to estimate how much is paid for energy efficiency in the dishwasher market in Spain. The estimations suggest that 15.6% of the final price is paid for the characteristic represented ... -
From Shadow to Green: Linking Environmental Fiscal Reforms and the Informal Economy
González-Eguino, Mikel; Markandya, Anil; Escapa García, Marta (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-03-03)
In the past few decades many papers have analysed in some depth different environmental tax reforms and the double dividend hypothesis, i.e. the possibility of improving not only the environment but also the economy through ... -
Is the current EU climate instrument mix adequate?
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-09-24)The EU is on track to meet the 2020 targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and renewable energy. However, climate policies have not been the main drivers of emission reductions but the economic crisis. *The price ... -
Local air pollution and global climate change taxes: a distributional analysis
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-02-17)Local air pollution and global climate change are two significant environmental problems which are interrelated. Some recent papers examine them together, but most of the relevant literature has focused either on climate ... -
Low Climate Stabilisation under Diverse Growth and Convergence Scenarios
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-08-08)In the last decade, a few papers have analysed the consequences of achieving the greenhouse gas concentration levels necessary to maintain global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. ... -
Low Climate Stabilisation under Diverse Growth and Convergence Scenarios
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-08-01)In the last decade, a few papers have analysed the consequences of achieving the greenhouse gas concentration levels necessary to maintain global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. ... -
Market Instruments and CO2 Mitigation: A General Equilibrium Analysis for Spain
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-13)Market instruments are a core element of policies to mitigate climate change. Choosing and designing the right instruments can help to minimise mitigation costs. This paper seeks to analyse various market instruments for ... -
Optimal Abandonment of Coal-Fired Stations in the EU
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-05-26)Carbon-fired power plants could face some difficulties in a carbon-constrained world. The traditional advantage of coal as a cheaper fuel may decrease in the future if CO2 allowance prices start to increase. This paper ... -
Optimal Investment in Energy Efficiency under Uncertainty
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-11-18)This paper deals with the optimal time to invest in an energy efficiency improvement. There is a broad consensus that such investments quickly pay for themselves in lower energy bills and spared emission allowances. However, ...