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Rebound effect (conservation)
About: Rebound effect (conservation) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 773 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25741 citations.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an indicator system based on energy, emergy and monetary units to explore the interactions between China's economic growth, its energy production and consumption, and the related air emissions during 1995-2011.
Abstract: How to coordinate the relationships between economy, energy and environment is a complex issue for China. This paper presented an indicator system based on energy, emergy and monetary units to explore the interactions between China׳s economic growth, its energy production and consumption, and the related air emissions during 1995–2011. The results show that (1) China׳s energy utilization efficiency is continuously raised whilst the total production efficiency is just slightly improved; (2) petroleum import has surpassed international warning line (50%) since 2007, and it is further challenging China׳s energy security; (3) basic energy mix is still mainly composed of coal and petroleum; (4) air emissions׳ impact from energy production has climbed rapidly whilst that from energy consumption has declined slowly. Air emissions׳ impact from energy consumption still has main contribution to the total emissions׳ impact whilst that from energy production has an increasing share. Therein, air emissions׳ impact mainly comes from the impact on human health. While air emission intensity from energy consumption decreases obviously, that from energy production generally increases; (5) generally, the relationships between the structures of economy and energy and air emissions have become more coordinated. Compared with structure coordination degree, the improvement of scale harmony degree between the three aspects is much slower due to rebound effect, which will seriously challenge the presented targets in 12th Five-Year-Plan (FYP). Promoting the synergistic effect should become the underlying strategy for future economic sustainable development.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify key drivers of carbon intensity changes of 55 sectors, applying the decomposition techniques and the world input-output data, and demonstrate that global carbon intensity fluctuates drastically when shocked by the global financial crisis, presenting an inversed-V shape.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a detailed analysis of both the direct and indirect energy rebound effect from the household perspective in China under a unified research framework, and showed that there are significant differences in risk vulnerability regarding energy rebound effects among different regions.
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TL;DR: In this article, the main available policies to minimize the rebound effect in households with special emphasis on economic instruments and particularly on energy taxation are analyzed, with the main focus on economic measures.
Abstract: Energy and climate change policies are often strongly based on achieving energy efficiency targets. These policies are supposed to reduce energy consumption and consequently, associated pollutant emissions, but the Jevons paradox may pose a question mark on this assumption. Rebound effects produced by reduction in costs of energy services have not been generally taken into account in policy making (there is only one known exception). Although there is no scientific consensus about its magnitude, there is consensus about its existence and in acknowledging the harmful effects it has on achieving energy or climate targets. It is necessary to address the rebound effect through behavioral, legal and economic instruments. This paper analyzes the main available policies to minimize the rebound effect in households with special emphasis on economic instruments and, particularly, on energy taxation. Keywords: Rebound effect; Energy efficiency; Environmental taxation JEL Classifications: Q2; Q3; Q4; Q5
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TL;DR: In this article, the potential emission and energy savings due to energy efficiency improvement may not fully materialize due to the rebound in energy efficiency due to a rebound in global economic growth.
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