Energy efficiency and renewable energy are key pillars of the energy transition, which is high on the policy agenda of governments and organizations around the world in the face of the climate ...crisis. The Netherlands is underperforming in emissions reduction goals. In this paper, we empirically assess factors to support policy for enhancing the uptake of carbon emissions reduction measures (ERMs) using data from the 2018 release of the Dutch Housing Survey. A distinction is made between owners and tenants, as well as by specific ERMs in the econometric analyses. Besides building features, socioeconomic characteristics and motives, we explicitly address the role of spatial factors. This has received much less attention in the related literature. Local and regional governmental and political conditions can result in spatial variation of uptake in ERMs. Also, differences across the urban-rural gradient, related to the built environment and motivations, can impact uptake. We find that spatial differences matter in the uptake of ERMs, even after controlling for a wide range of individual and building characteristics, which calls for more place-sensitive policies. Insights from this paper are pertinent not only for the Netherlands, but more widely as spatial factors can also be pivotal to take on board in energy policy frameworks in other countries.
•Appraises factors to support policy for enhancing residential uptake of carbon emissions reduction measures (ERMs).•Argues for taking into account the spatial context, which has received limited attention.•Provides application to household level data for the Netherlands between 2012 and 2018.•Spatial differences at local and regional levels matter in the uptake of ERMs.
In order to evaluate the degree of sustainable development at CEEC (Central and Eastern European Countries) by means of an aggregate indicator and to determine if the government expenditures in the ...field of environment, environment protection, fuel, energy, education and social protection could influence the achievement of the Europa 2020 targets, a data panel of 10 CEEC for 2007–2018 period was analysed through Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) method and a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). To calculate the indicator, an algorithm that included six steps was used. The results of the study show, on long-term, statistically significant correlations between the target indicator and all the selected variables, except for the government expenditures with the education variable. However, on short-term, there were identified strong connections reflected in bidirectional causality between government expenditures with social protection and the target indicator. Also, on short-term, a strong causal relationship was identified from target indicator to the total government expenditures for education, from the environmental protection government expenditures to the government expenditures for social protection and from the total government expenditures for social protection to the total government expenditures for education.
Sustainable development has been now for more than 15 years, at the center of the objectives of the EU, being already enshrined in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997. The basic concern of this now ...ubiquitous term is to assure the current generation’s demands will be fulfilled without endangering the needs of upcoming generations, sustainability being a key factor that affects both the financial market and the overall economy. The European Union has addressed this issue by developing a long term strategy, taking into account both economical, social, environmental and global governance factors and identifying seven key interrelated issues regarding climate change and clean energy, transport, consumption and production, the management and conservation of natural resources, public health, social inclusion and global poverty. This paper aims to present an overview of the current situation of the key challenges and their intersectoral measures and to determine the progress made in this area as well as to identify the key issues that offer the greatest amount of improvement and to recommend possible solutions to the aforementioned challenges. The methodology will benefit from data obtained and sampled from the Eurostat monitoring report, thus providing an accurate and transparent impartial analysis.
The sustainable development issue since 60s of XX century is present on the international debate. One of the areas discussed in the sustainable development context is the climate change and energy ...and this in different ways for example taking energy from renewable energy sources, primary energy consumption or greenhouse gas emission. It goes probably from the connection between the energy sector and interference into the natural environment, the exploitation the natural sources and its high emission, what has a special meaning nowadays. that is why European Union starts to thing about special meaning of this issue, can we find this in its strategy documents. The main aim of this work is the attempt assessment the level of realization the sustainable development in climate change and energy area in Poland and comparing that to the other European countries. The sustainable development in the climate change and energy has been shown in Polish and European countries strategy. The comparative analysis Poland to the other EU countries has been done. The state documents and study literature have been used in this article. The comparative analysis were based on data form Eurostat.
"Europe 2020" emerged as a result of government attempts to mitigate possible effects of the economic crisis that arose in 2008 and to ensure economic, social and environmental growth in all EU ...Member States. The objective of this study is to analyze how evolved until now the degree of achievement of the main indicators that highlights the performance targets of "Europe 2020" Strategy. The authors conducted a European comparison between the EU countries with a maximum and minimum value of indicators and Romania, but also, where statistical data have allowed, they conducted a comparison for some global indicators between EU and non-EU developed countries from an economic point of view. This study concluded that EU countries must intensify the measures taken in order to fulfill the assumed targets and also that will be very hard for them to be achieved. A problem in this regard is that the countries have very different starting points.
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