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Impacts of Climate Change on European Critical Infrastructures: The Case of the Power Sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-06-24)
Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases cause climate change and this change in turn induces various direct impacts, e.g., changes in regional weather patterns. The frequency of heat waves and droughts in Europe is ...
Energy Supply and the Sustainability of Endogenous Growth
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-07-13)
The paper provides an introduction to energy and, respective resource use within the framework of endogenous growth models. We provide an overview of different modeling approaches as well as intuition with respect to the ...
Local and Global Externalities, Environmental Policies and Growth
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-25)
The paper analyzes the implications of local and global pollution when two types of abatement activities can be undertaken. One type reduces solely local pollution (e.g., use of particulate matter filters) while the other ...
ICT Applications in the Research for Environmental Sustainability
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-11-08)
Whether Information and Communication Technology (ICT) constitutes a threat to or a cure for environmental deterioration is a matter of controversy. Empirical evidence on the impacts of ICT is rare, so few generalisable ...
Effects of Climate Change on the European Nuclear Power Sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-09-23)
Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases cause climate change and this change in turn induces various direct impacts, e.g., changes in regional weather patterns. The frequency of heat waves and droughts in Europe is ...