Learning networks as an enabler for informed decisions to target energy-efficiency potentials in companies
TL;DR: LEEN can be indicated as a policy instrument enabling informed decisions on efficiency measures and supporting their implementation and tailoring the programme to different target groups and aiming at dismantling other barriers directly in addition to tackling information deficits could be undertaken to improve the process.
About: This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2017-10-01. It has received 24 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the factors driving the adoption of energy-efficiency measures by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and find that high investment costs, which are captured by subjective and objective proxies, appear to impede the adoption energy-efficient measures, even if these measures are deemed profitable.
Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the factors driving the adoption of energy-efficiency measures by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our analyses are based on cross-sectional data from SMEs which participated in a German energy audit program between 2008 and 2010. In general, our findings appear robust to alternative model specifications and are consistent with the theoretical and still scarce empirical literature on barriers to energy efficiency in SMEs. More specifically, high investment costs, which are captured by subjective and objective proxies, appear to impede the adoption of energy-efficient measures, even if these measures are deemed profitable. Similarly, we find that lack of capital slows the adoption of energy-efficient measures, primarily for larger investments. Hence, investment subsidies or soft loans (for larger invest-ments) may help accelerating the diffusion of energy-efficiency measures in SMEs. Other barriers were not found to be statistically significant. Finally, our findings provide evidence that the quality of energy audits affects the adoption of energy-efficiency measures. Hence, effective regulation should involve quality standards for energy au-dits, templates for audit reports or mandatory monitoring of energy audits.
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TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which the European and national policies in the selected jurisdictions such as Italy and the UK address energy efficiency in industry and whether there are any measures in place to promote it.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on concepts of energy efficiency and load flexibility and compare the two types of measures with respect to the diffusion of actions taken and possible drivers and barriers affecting uptake, derive recommendations to promote the measures more effectively and synergistically.
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TL;DR: Novel findings are revealed that can help logistics players streamline operations focused at achieving environmental sustainability performance and that transportation planning and distribution network and, commodity considerations backed by top management support can further environmental performance.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between measures of sustainable freight transport performance (in the context of mid-sized third-party auto components’ logistics players) with...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used structural equation modeling to test the indirect effect of ISO14001 certification on ecological outcomes involving a large sample of 3633 small and medium sized enterprises from twelve European countries.
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University of Leeds1, University of Cambridge2, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds3, Macquarie University4, Durham University5, University of the Witwatersrand6, Conservation International7, Stellenbosch University8, World Conservation Monitoring Centre9, National Autonomous University of Mexico10, University of Kansas11, James Cook University12
TL;DR: Estimates of extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20% of the Earth's terrestrial surface show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.
Abstract: Climate change over the past approximately 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction. Using projections of species' distributions for future climate scenarios, we assess extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20% of the Earth's terrestrial surface. Exploring three approaches in which the estimated probability of extinction shows a power-law relationship with geographical range size, we predict, on the basis of mid-range climate-warming scenarios for 2050, that 15-37% of species in our sample of regions and taxa will be 'committed to extinction'. When the average of the three methods and two dispersal scenarios is taken, minimal climate-warming scenarios produce lower projections of species committed to extinction ( approximately 18%) than mid-range ( approximately 24%) and maximum-change ( approximately 35%) scenarios. These estimates show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the intellectual contours of this emerging field by conducting a review of basic conceptual frameworks, together with bibliographical analysis of 540 journal articles in the field.
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TL;DR: In this article, a step-by-step computer algorithm of the revised version of the original Little Jiffy, Mark IV, is presented, with the index of the covariance matrix (with zero in the diagonal) under consideration.
Abstract: IN this paper three changes and one new development for the method of exploratory factor analysis (a second generation Little Jiffy) developed by Kaiser (1970) are described. Following this short description a step-by-step computer algorithm of the revised method-dubbed Little Jiffy, Mark IV-is presented. Extensive empirical experience with &dquo;a second generation Little Jiffy&dquo; (Kaiser, 1970) indicates that the method, for large matrices, consistently mildly underfactors. A revision is called for. Thus, the writers adopt as the answer for the crucially important question of the &dquo;number of factors&dquo; Guttman’s (1954) classic weaker lower bound, the index of the covariance matrix (with zeros in the diagonal) under consideration. This answer is the same as that given by Kaiser’s (1956, 1960, 1970) extensively used &dquo;eigenvalues greater than one of R.&dquo;
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify five distinct notions of optimality: the economists' economic potential, the technologists' technical potential, hypothetical potential, narrow social optimum and true social optimum.
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TL;DR: WEO-2012 as discussed by the authors presents authoritative projections of energy trends through to 2035 and insights into what they mean for energy security, environmental sustainability, and economic development, together with an update on climate change issues.
Abstract: Industry and government decision-makers and others with a stake in the energy sector all need WEO-2012. It presents authoritative projections of energy trends through to 2035 and insights into what they mean for energy security, environmental sustainability and economic development.
Oil, coal, natural gas, renewables and nuclear power are all covered, together with an update on climate change issues. Global energy demand, production, trade, investment and carbon dioxide emissions are broken down by region or country, by fuel and by sector.
Special strategic analyses cover
-What unlocking the
purely economic potential for energy efficiency could do, country by country and sector by sector, for energy markets, the economy and the environment.
-The Iraqi energy sector, examining both its importance in satisfying the country’s own needs and its crucial role in meeting global oil and gas demand.
-An examination of the cost of delaying action on climate change.
-The water-energy nexus,as water resources become increasingly stressed and access more contentious.
-Measures of progress towards providing universal access to modern energy services.
There are many uncertainties; but many decisions cannot wait. The insights of WEO‑2012 are invaluable to those who must shape our energy future.
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