Understanding material and energy use in the processes of decoupling CO emissions from economic growth.

The share of emissions from materials has dramatically increased over the last decades and is projected to rise in the coming years. Therefore, understanding the environmental effect of materials becomes highly crucial, especially from the climate mitigation perspective. However, its effect on emissions is often overlooked and more attention is heavily paid to the energy-related policies.

The role of information and communication technologies for environmental sustainability: Evidence from a large panel data analysis.

This study investigates the nexus between CO2 emissions and ICTs for a large sample of countries. We cover 93 countries over the period 1995-2016 and use three different variables as a proxy for ICTs, i.e.

Towards a carbon-neutral economy: The dynamics of factor substitution in Germany.

This paper investigates the elasticity of substitution between four inputs-capital, labor, energy, and material-with the translog cost approach for a wide range of industries in Germany by incorporating the slow adjustment process in factor substitution. To this end, we take advantage of EU KLEMS database covering a wide range of industries and consider two models. The first is the static model, in which instantaneous and complete substitution adjustments are assumed.

How production-based and consumption-based emissions accounting systems change climate policy analysis: the case of CO convergence.

Much of the existing research analyses on emissions and climate policy are dominantly based on emissions data provided by production-based accounting (PBA) system. However, PBA provides an incomplete picture of driving forces behind these emission changes and impact of global trade on emissions, simply by neglecting the environmental impacts of consumption. To remedy this problem, several studies propose to consider national emissions calculated by consumption-based accounting (CBA) systems in greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments for progress and comparisons among the countries.