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Daniel De Wolf - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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indicators for Sustainable Energy Development a multivariate cointegration and causality analysis from tunisian road transport sector
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013Co-Authors: Khaled Ben Abdallah, Mounir Belloumi, Daniel De WolfAbstract:This paper studies causal mechanism between indicators for Sustainable Energy Development related to Energy consumption from Tunisian road transport sector. The investigation is made using the Johansen cointegration technique and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) approach. It examines the nexus between transport value added, road transport-related Energy consumption, road infrastructure, fuel price and CO2 emissions from Tunisian transport sector during the period of 1980–2010.
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Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development: A multivariate cointegration and causality analysis from Tunisian road transport sector
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013Co-Authors: Khaled Abdallah, Mounir Belloumi, Daniel De WolfAbstract:This paper studies causal mechanism between indicators for Sustainable Energy Development related to Energy consumption from Tunisian road transport sector. The investigation is made using the Johansen cointegration technique and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) approach. It examines the nexus between transport value added, road transport-related Energy consumption, road infrastructure, fuel price and CO 2 emissions from Tunisian transport sector during the period of 1980-2010. Empirical results show that road transport-related Energy consumption, transport value added, transport CO 2 emissions and road infrastructure are mutually causal in the long-run. These results do not support the hypothesis of neutrality between Energy and income for the Tunisian road transport sector. Also, there is a unidirectional causality running from fuel price to road transport-related Energy consumption with no feedback in both the short and long runs. The fuel price and the road infrastructure are significant in the causal chain. Though the estimated long-run cointegrated equation, we conclude that there is an inverse N-shaped relation between transport value added and transport CO 2 emissions, with income turning point respectively equal to 75 and 579 (constant 2000 TND prices). Therefore, our empirical findings refute the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped EKC for transport CO 2 emissions in Tunisia. The findings of this study have a number of policy implications. Economic growth, environmental degradation, Energy and transportation policies should be recognized in order to improve the Energy efficiency in transport sector. All measures that should reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions without affecting economic growth may be undertaken. The policymakers in Tunisia should plan urban transport, relocate production units, improve fuel-efficient vehicles and reinforce legislation on controlling emissions in order to copying with policies based on low-carbon Development and climate-resilient strategies.
Mounir Belloumi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sustainable Energy Development in Saudi Arabia
Sustainability, 2015Co-Authors: Mounir Belloumi, Atef Saad AlshehryAbstract:The main objective of this research is to study the role of Energy consumption in economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period of 1971–2012 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration procedure, and based on neoclassical growth, endogenous growth, and ecological-economics viewpoints. Our empirical results show the existence of a cointegrating relationship between the different variables investigated. In addition, all the inputs (conventional and non-conventional) Granger cause economic growth in both the short and long runs. Our findings confirm the Energy-led growth hypothesis in the case of Saudi Arabia. Hence, Energy conservation policies may deteriorate economic growth in Saudi Arabia if they are not followed by measures that improve Energy efficiency, Energy saving technologies and encourage the investment and use of renewable Energy sources such as solar and wind energies that can participate in the attenuation of climate changes.
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indicators for Sustainable Energy Development a multivariate cointegration and causality analysis from tunisian road transport sector
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013Co-Authors: Khaled Ben Abdallah, Mounir Belloumi, Daniel De WolfAbstract:This paper studies causal mechanism between indicators for Sustainable Energy Development related to Energy consumption from Tunisian road transport sector. The investigation is made using the Johansen cointegration technique and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) approach. It examines the nexus between transport value added, road transport-related Energy consumption, road infrastructure, fuel price and CO2 emissions from Tunisian transport sector during the period of 1980–2010.
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Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development: A multivariate cointegration and causality analysis from Tunisian road transport sector
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013Co-Authors: Khaled Abdallah, Mounir Belloumi, Daniel De WolfAbstract:This paper studies causal mechanism between indicators for Sustainable Energy Development related to Energy consumption from Tunisian road transport sector. The investigation is made using the Johansen cointegration technique and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) approach. It examines the nexus between transport value added, road transport-related Energy consumption, road infrastructure, fuel price and CO 2 emissions from Tunisian transport sector during the period of 1980-2010. Empirical results show that road transport-related Energy consumption, transport value added, transport CO 2 emissions and road infrastructure are mutually causal in the long-run. These results do not support the hypothesis of neutrality between Energy and income for the Tunisian road transport sector. Also, there is a unidirectional causality running from fuel price to road transport-related Energy consumption with no feedback in both the short and long runs. The fuel price and the road infrastructure are significant in the causal chain. Though the estimated long-run cointegrated equation, we conclude that there is an inverse N-shaped relation between transport value added and transport CO 2 emissions, with income turning point respectively equal to 75 and 579 (constant 2000 TND prices). Therefore, our empirical findings refute the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped EKC for transport CO 2 emissions in Tunisia. The findings of this study have a number of policy implications. Economic growth, environmental degradation, Energy and transportation policies should be recognized in order to improve the Energy efficiency in transport sector. All measures that should reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions without affecting economic growth may be undertaken. The policymakers in Tunisia should plan urban transport, relocate production units, improve fuel-efficient vehicles and reinforce legislation on controlling emissions in order to copying with policies based on low-carbon Development and climate-resilient strategies.
Dalia Streimikiene - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the concept of risk and possibilities of application of mathematical methods in supporting decision making for Sustainable Energy Development
Sustainability, 2019Co-Authors: Marcin Rabe, Dalia Streimikiene, Yuriy BilanAbstract:This study is devoted to presentation of the concept of risk, and the possibility of applying mathematical methods in supporting decision making in the Energy sector to promote Sustainable Energy Development. The problem with risk assessment in the Energy sector arises mainly due to the difficulty of expressing risk in numerical terms. To avoid risk, it is necessary to set the criteria and objectives of measurement before making decisions in the Energy sector. The aim of this study is to try to fill in this gap by means of comparing decisions under risk conditions within models supporting Energy decisions. The authors’ focus is on the problem of risk in supporting decision making towards Sustainable Energy sector Development, which is the main target of the European Union (EU) Energy policies. Without the ability to determine the probability of occurrence of certain phenomena and their inclusion into the model, it is not possible to determine how well the solutions resulting from the models are accurate, and what is the probability of their implementation under specific conditions linked to renewable Energy Development.
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An Overview of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in Dealing with Sustainable Energy Development Issues
Energies, 2018Co-Authors: Indre Siksnelyte, Dalia Streimikiene, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Deepak SharmaAbstract:The measurement of sustainability is actively used today as one of the main preventative instruments in order to reduce the decline of the environment. Sustainable decision-making in solving Energy issues can be supported and contradictory effects can be evaluated by scientific achievements of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. The main goal of this paper is to overview the application of decision-making methods in dealing with Sustainable Energy Development issues. In this study, 105 published papers from the Web of Science Core Collection (WSCC) database are selected and reviewed, from 2004 to 2017, related to Energy sustainability issues and MCDM methods. All the selected papers were categorized into 9 fields by the application area and into 10 fields by the used method. After the categorization of the scientific articles and detailed analysis, SWOT analysis of MCDM approaches in dealing with Sustainable Energy Development issues is provided. The widespread application and use of MCDM methods confirm that MCDM methods can help decision-makers in solving Energy sustainability problems and are highly popular and used in practice.
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the impact of greening tax systems on Sustainable Energy Development in the baltic states
Energies, 2018Co-Authors: Dalia Streimikiene, Indre Siksnelyte, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Fausto CavallaroAbstract:The paper deals with the greening of tax systems in the European Union (EU), and reviews the achievements of the Baltic States in relation to greening their tax systems and implementing the Sustainable Energy Development goals set by the EU’s Energy policies. Environmental taxes promote Sustainable Energy Development, as they allow internalizing the external costs of atmospheric pollution in the Energy sector. Energy production and consumption are a major source classical pollutants and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Almost of the all EU member states (MS) apply pollution taxes as the most important economic tool for mitigating the environmental impacts of various economic activities. Considering the importance of the Energy sector in terms of its contributions to total atmospheric emissions in the EU, it is supposed that environmental taxes are important drivers of Sustainable Energy Development. Environmental taxes, as the main tool for the integration of negative externalities that are related to atmospheric pollution, are imposed to create incentives for reducing fossil fuel consumption and switching to renewable Energy sources or fuels that have a lower carbon content and thus cause less pollution. The paper presents a comparative assessment of the impact of environmental taxes on Sustainable Energy Development indicators in three selected countries from the Baltic region (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) during the period 2005–2015, and reveals the role that the greening of tax systems has had on implementing Sustainable Energy Development targets in the Baltic States.
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Promoting interactions between local climate change mitigation, Sustainable Energy Development, and rural Development policies in Lithuania
Energy Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Dalia Streimikiene, Tomas Baležentis, Irena KriščiukaitienėAbstract:Abstract Lithuania has developed several important climate change mitigation policy documents however there are no attempts in Lithuania to develop local climate change mitigation policies or to decentralize climate change mitigation policy. Seeking to achieve harmonization and decentralization of climate change mitigation and Energy policies in Lithuania the framework for local climate change mitigation strategy need to be developed taking into account requirements, targets and measures set in national climate change mitigation and Energy policy documents. The paper will describe how national climate change mitigation and Energy policies can be implemented via local Energy and climate change mitigation plans. The aim of the paper is to analyze the climate change mitigation policy and its relationship with policies promoting Sustainable Energy Development in Lithuania and to present a framework for local approaches to climate change mitigation in Lithuania, in the context of the existing national and supra-national Energy, climate change, and rural Development policies.
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Corporate social responsibility for implementation of Sustainable Energy Development in Baltic States
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2009Co-Authors: Dalia Streimikiene, Zaneta Simanaviciene, Ruslan KovaliovAbstract:Abstract This article analyses the main problems and challenges of corporate social responsibility in Energy sector in Baltic States. Development of socially responsible business in Energy sector can provide for the implementation of Sustainable Energy Development without state interventions. This voluntary measure implemented by Energy enterprises can ensure efficient public–private partnership in achieving Sustainable Development targets. The analysis of corporate social responsibility Development in Energy sector of Baltic States is provided and positive impact of corporate social responsibility on Sustainable Energy Development is evaluated.
Claude Etievant - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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solar hydrogen Energy the european maghreb connection a new way of excellence for a Sustainable Energy Development
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2009Co-Authors: Abdelnasser Cherigui, Bouziane Mahmah, Farid Harouadi, M Belhamel, Samira Chader, A Mraoui, Claude EtievantAbstract:The global sustainability is a key word of the future Energy system for human beings. It should be friendly to our earth. Hydrogen Energy is a critical resource to Sustainable Energy Development. Over the coming decades, rapid economic growth will necessitate expanded and diversified Energy supplies. This study is proposed to illustrate the attention to the opportunities and possibilities of connecting the Energy consumer in North Mediterranean countries, to the reservoir of the Great Sahara of North Africa using hydrogen as a solar Energy carrier. It also discusses cooperation between North Africa and north sides of the Mediterranean that has been going on for a long time, in oil and natural gas industry, and why cannot be done in solar hydrogen Energy industry, which will reduce pollution and will last forever. Clearly, North Africa is a major bilateral partner with the Europe and the people of the two shares of the Mediterranean will be work together and to built strategic relationships for many decades. In the future, North Africa countries are well-positioned to play a greater role in the Europe clean Energy equation. Demographically, interregional migration due to economic concerns will decline. Now, there are good chances to start such cooperation for the benefits of all partners.
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Solar hydrogen Energy: The European―Maghreb connection. A new way of excellence for a Sustainable Energy Development
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2009Co-Authors: Abdelnasser Cherigui, Bouziane Mahmah, Farid Harouadi, M Belhamel, Samira Chader, A Mraoui, Claude EtievantAbstract:The global sustainability is a key word of the future Energy system for human beings. It should be friendly to our earth. Hydrogen Energy is a critical resource to Sustainable Energy Development. Over the coming decades, rapid economic growth will necessitate expanded and diversified Energy supplies. This study is proposed to illustrate the attention to the opportunities and possibilities of connecting the Energy consumer in North Mediterranean countries, to the reservoir of the Great Sahara of North Africa using hydrogen as a solar Energy carrier. It also discusses cooperation between North Africa and north sides of the Mediterranean that has been going on for a long time, in oil and natural gas industry, and why cannot be done in solar hydrogen Energy industry, which will reduce pollution and will last forever. Clearly, North Africa is a major bilateral partner with the Europe and the people of the two shares of the Mediterranean will be work together and to built strategic relationships for many decades. In the future, North Africa countries are well-positioned to play a greater role in the Europe clean Energy equation. Demographically, interregional migration due to economic concerns will decline. Now, there are good chances to start such cooperation for the benefits of all partners.
Dalia Streimikienė - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Comparative Assessment of Sustainable Energy Development in the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Slovakia
Journal of Cryptology, 2016Co-Authors: Dalia Streimikienė, Asta MikalauskieneAbstract:Sustainable Energy Development and its evaluation is a key resource in learning and understanding the policies implemented by the European Commission and how they work while comparing countries within Sustainable Energy indicators in the area of Sustainable Energy. The competitiveness of countries is directly related to the progress achieved in implementing Sustainable Energy Development as the Energy sector has great significance for the future Development of the country. The Energy sector is crucial for economic growth and has a major impact on the environment. Sustainable Energy Development permits the decoupling of economic growth from Energy consumption and the decoupling of Energy consumption from atmospheric pollution. This paper views the concept of Sustainable Energy Development and policies that are in place of this topic. It also compares the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Slovakia within the boundaries of the following Sustainable Energy Development indicators: Sustainable consumption and production, marking the production of Energy; climate change and Energy, marking GHG emissions and the share of renewable Energy in gross final Energy consumption; Sustainable transport, marking the Energy consumption of transport relative to GDP
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Impact of environmental taxes on Sustainable Energy Development in baltic states, Czech republic and Slovakia
E+M Ekonomie a Management, 2015Co-Authors: Dalia StreimikienėAbstract:Environmental taxes have direct impact on Sustainable Energy Development as Energy production and consumption is the major source of GHG and classical pollutants emissions. There are number of EU member states which are using environmental pollution taxes as the main economic instrument of atmospheric air pollution reduction. The Energy sector is the main source of atmospheric pollution therefore environmental taxes should have direct impact on Sustainable Energy Development as these taxes create incentives to reduce consumption of fossil fuels and to switch to renewables and cleaner fossil fuels such as natural gas. The comparative study of environmental taxes and indicators of Sustainable Energy sector Development in Baltics and Czech Republic and Slovakia was performed to assess what role environmental taxes are playing in achieving Sustainable Energy Development in selected new EU member states. Analysis of environmental taxes in three Baltic States and Czech Republic indicated quite different Energy and pollution tax rates as well as quite large differences in the share of environmental tax revenues as percentages of GDP in these countries. Estonia distinguishes with the best results in greening environmental tax system and one of the best results in achieving Sustainable Energy Development targets. Latvia has one of the lowest share of environmental taxes as percentage of GDP and has very high shares of renewables in electricity generation and in final Energy consumption however it is more related with favourable climate conditions and well developed hydro power plants.
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Multi-objective ranking of climate change mitigation policies and measures in Lithuania
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013Co-Authors: Dalia Streimikienė, Tomas BaležentisAbstract:The aim of the article is to develop technique for climate change mitigation policies assessment based on priorities of Sustainable Energy Development. There is a close relationship between Energy policies and tools aiming at Sustainable Energy Development targets, i.e. promotion of renewable Energy sources and Energy efficiency measures and climate change mitigation tools. Therefore ranking of climate change mitigation tools based on their impact Sustainable Energy Development targets is necessary seeking to ensure harmonization of policies and their synergy effect. The main tasks of the article are: (i) to define EU Sustainable Energy Development targets, (ii) to analyze EU Energy and climate change mitigation policies and their interactions, (iii) to propose a multi-criteria framework for climate change mitigation policies assessment and ranking, and (iv) to apply multi-criteria decision making methodology for climate change mitigation policies ranking in Lithuania. The main findings of paper are related with proposed technique for climate change mitigation policies assessment and application of this technique for ranking of climate change mitigation policies in Lithuania.
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use of eu structural funds for Sustainable Energy Development in new eu member states
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2007Co-Authors: Dalia Streimikienė, Valentinas Klevas, Jolanta BubelieneAbstract:More wide use of renewable Energy sources (RES) and increase in Energy supply and use efficiency can make a valuable contribution to the meeting Sustainable Energy Development targets. The article presents a detailed overview of possibilities to use the EU Structural Funds available for new member states (NMS) to finance Sustainable Energy projects and to overcome market failures related with negative externalities of pollution, positive externalities of knowledge and adoption of new pollution reduction technologies and incomplete information. The analysis of current situation of the use of EU Structural funds (SF) for the implementation of Sustainable Energy projects in Lithuania, Poland and Check Republic was performed based on RUSE project results. The proposals to enhance use of SF for Sustainable Energy projects in NMS were developed.
