Development of a greenhouse gas accounting GIS-based tool to support local policy making—application to an Italian municipality

Willingness to Pay and Public Acceptance for Hydrogen Buses: A Case Study of Perugia

“…In this case, the estimated average WTP has to be used in its entirety. Very high values emerge, which would lead to a replacement of the bus fleet in a very short period of time, and this result seems to be a good starting point for future studies (at the municipal level, this result is important for helping to convince consumers to adopt lifestyles with low environmental impacts [44]), and more in-depth analyses by the city public authorities administration could be required to obtain more robust results. Finally, we can perform a simple accounting exercise to appraise the price that should be set to allow for a complete fleet replacement within an acceptable time frame.…”

Wave Energy Assessment along Sicilian Coastline, Based on DEIM Point Absorber

“…The increasing concerns for the global environmental effects of greenhouse emissions, resulting from energy consumption, make relevant the current role of renewable sources in a regional policy context [4,5]; local authorities are called to play a remarkable role with strategies improving the energy efficiency and sustainability in all energetic uses [6,7] and replacing, as possible, fossil-based technology with proper renewable energy technologies [8,9].…”

MuSAE: A European Project for the Diffusion of Energy and Environmental Planning in Small-Medium Sized Municipalities

“…These factors allow to estimate emissions in terms of tonnes of equivalent CO 2 (a parameter that summarizes the contribution to global warming from all greenhouse gases) from energy consumption expressed in tonnes of oil equivalent (toe). Advanced procedures exist to support municipal politics in contrasting GHG emissions; for instance, the method already applied in the Municipality of Spoleto (Umbria Region, Italy) could be successfully implemented in the partner Municipalities in order to evaluate the trend of emissions after the MEEPs adoption [27].…”