More priorities, more problems? Decision-making with multiple energy, development and climate objectives

Bhardwaj, Ankit; Joshi, Madhura; Khosla, Radhika; Dubash, Navroz K.

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.11.003

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“…Bhardwaj et al [41] examined the decision approaches in his review covering 167 studies related with multiple energy, development and climate objectives. Waltho et al [26] reviewed 105 articles on green supply chain networks between 2010 and 2017.…”

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Financial Analysis of International Energy Trade: A Strategic Outlook for EU-15

2019

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This study aims to analyse the international energy trade in EU-15. Within this context, 6 items of international transport and energy trade have been selected to evaluate the performance of European Union (EU) 15 countries. For this purpose, a comparative analysis has been applied by including and excluding the data of energy trade in international transport for the years between 2013 and 2016. In this framework, interval type-2 fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approaches are considered. The findings show that road and sea have the highest importance for international transport and energy trade. However, pipeline and electricity, which represent the energy trade, take place on the last ranks. Another important conclusion is that there is almost no difference in the ranking of international transport performance including and excluding energy trade. While considering these issues, it is recommended that that European countries should take some actions to increase the energy production. The main reason is that it has a positive influence on both international trade volume and industrial production. Thus, they can focus on renewable energy production which leads to lower cost in this process.

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Financial Analysis of International Energy Trade: A Strategic Outlook for EU-15

2019

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“…In particular, the EU voluntary schemes of biofuel production would be replaced with the international agreements. Promoting multi-sectoral contribution, the framework of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of the Paris Climate Agreement allows countries to simultaneously implement national priorities and global climate objectives (Buyx & Tait, 2011;Bhardwaj et al, 2019).…”

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Public Perceptions of Biofuels - Case Study: Frames of Biofuel Discussion in the Finnish Context

Siivari¹,

Safrutin²,

Mozaffari³

et al. 2020

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Biofuels are fuels made of biological materials and they can be used in cars, trucks and other engines. The EU's policy and regulatory framework for bioeconomy and biofuels is seen as a multi-layered and complex issue. Policies around biofuels have developed recently in the EU. Renewable Energy Directive II established a binding target for the use of renewable energy across the European Union by 2030 to be 32% of the total energy production. Finland is a country where the utilization of forest biomass has traditions ranging back centuries and continues in the present day with bioenergy holding a central role in the Finnish energy matrix. Our case study is focused on examining the public perceptions of biofuels in Finland and is linked to the discussion about climate change, global warming, and sustainable development. We used a stakeholder approach and mapped key stakeholders in the biofuel sector in Finland from six stakeholder categories: corporations, governmental actors, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), municipalities, universities, and the media. We selected 59 online publications for our analysis from a time period between 2010-2019. Frame analysis was conducted using three pairs of polarised frames: environmental positive and negative, economic positive and negative, and technological positive and negative. The results show that for the most part the framing of biofuel discussion in Finland is positive and emphasizes the environmentally and economically positive aspects. The negative aspects that came to front are especially in the notions of economic costs and in arguments for environmental calculations. The EU legislation itself is seen as a background to all this discussion and is itself not scrutinized extensively by the various stakeholders.

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“…In practice, however, MCA frameworks tend to provide little guidance to decision-makers beyond limited case studies (Fung and Helgeson, 2017). Moreover, since few ex ante tools are available to decisionmakers, MCA remains mostly academic (Bhardwaj et al, 2019). While system dynamics can yield important insights, it is still only semi-quantitative and useful mainly for identifying relative importance.…”

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Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGe

Helgeson¹,

Zhang²

2020

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This report introduces features of the Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGe$) Online Tool V 1.0 and presents a fictitious case study of wildfire planning in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) based on publicly available real-world data. The case study highlights the competing interests of two neighboring communities by evaluating the same project alternatives from the point of view of each community. The WUI case study also demonstrates the importance of considering co-benefits and approaches to incorporating nonmarket valuation. The report presents a walkthrough of EDGe$ Online and closes with a discussion of implications from the presented case study and potential future research.

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More priorities, more problems? Decision-making with multiple energy, development and climate objectives

Cited by 66 publications

References 229 publications

Financial Analysis of International Energy Trade: A Strategic Outlook for EU-15

Financial Analysis of International Energy Trade: A Strategic Outlook for EU-15

Public Perceptions of Biofuels - Case Study: Frames of Biofuel Discussion in the Finnish Context

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