The elephant in the room – A comparative study of uncertainties in carbon offsets

Olsson, Amy Rader; Grönkvist, Stefan; Lind, Mårten; Yan, Jinyue

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.11.004

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“…In the case of industries operating in highly competitive countries (Segment D), a tangled relationship arises as there is evidence of a triadic relationship, as competitiveness and productive performance negatively affect environmental efficiency (H1 is not rejected, H2 is not accepted, and H3 is not accepted). A direct rebound effect is also supported in this segment (H4 is not rejected) (Kounetas & Tsekouras, 2008;Mongo et al, 2021;Olsson et al, 2016) while the effect of an economic framework of high quality appears to support T A B L E 2 Tracing green growth through segments of competitiveness. (Chatzistamoulou, 2023) as well as the technological hierarchy of the sector each industry belongs to since the exploitation of knowledge flows between the industries of the manufacturing and transportation sectors appears to be differentiated .…”

Section: A Policy Perspective On Industrial Resource Efficiencymentioning

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Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies

Chatzistamoulou

Κουνετάς

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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The European Green Deal entails benefits for industrial transition to cleaner production through resource efficiency, paving the way to green transition. We develop a conceptual framework to study the drivers of resource efficiency of European industries towards green growth via segments of the countries' competitiveness under technological heterogeneity. Data on 13 industries in 17 European countries over an 8‐year period is used. Evidence shows that isolated efforts to improve productive performance harms environmental efficiency in low competitiveness countries. Results show that industrial environmental performance is affected by country's competitiveness, contributing to the implementation of the New Industrial Strategy of Europe.

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Section: A Policy Perspective On Industrial Resource Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 82%

Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies

Chatzistamoulou

Κουνετάς

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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“…Looking even further away from the studied object, there is also a possibility of rebound effects in connected markets, in technical systems, or in the form of lifestyle changes (see, for example, [26]). The rebound effect is omitted in this study, mainly because of complexity.…”

Section: Evaluation Of Ghg Emissionsmentioning

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Active Management of Heat Customers Towards Lower District Heating Return Water Temperature

Rosén

Ödlund

2019

Energies

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The traditional way of managing the supply and return water temperatures in a district heating system (DHS) is by controlling the supply water temperature. The return water temperature then becomes a passive result that reflects the overall energy efficiency of the DHS. A DHS with many poorly functioning district heating centrals will create a high return water temperature, and the energy efficiency of the DHS will be affected negatively in several ways (e.g., lower efficiency of the flue gas condenser, higher heat losses in pipes, and lower electricity production for a DHS with combined heat and power (CHP)). With a strategic introduction of low-grade heat customers, the return water temperature can be lowered and, to some extent, controlled. With the heat customers connected in parallel, which is the traditional setup, return water temperatures can only be lowered at the same rate as the heat customers are improved. The active management of some customers can lower the return water temperatures faster and, in the long run, lead to better controlled return water temperatures. Active management is defined here as an adjustment of a domestic heating system in order to improve DHS efficiency without affecting the heating service for the individual building. The opposite can be described as passive management, where heat customers are connected to the DHS in a standardized manner, without taking the overall DHS efficiency into consideration. The case study in this article shows possible efficiency gains for the examined DHS at around 7%. Looking at fuel use, there is a large reduction for oil, with 10–30% reduction depending on the case in question, while the reduction is shown to be largest for the case with the lowest return water temperature. The results also show that efficiency gains will increase electricity production by about 1–3%, and that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are reduced by 4–20%.

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“…。至 2010 年， LULUCF 又被作为温室气体清单核算的重要部门之一，核算方法的适用性和不确定性程度颇受关注 [11][12][13] 。当前，对 LU-LUCF 的研究集中于核算 LULUCF 缓解温室气体排放的潜力，评估其为实现减排目标做出的贡献 [14] ， LULUCF 的巨大缓解潜力让清洁发展机制(Clean Development Mechanism, CDM) 和其他气候政策工具都有望为其提供资金支持 [15] 。LULUCF 涉及碳储量的变化受许多因素的影响，包括不同土地用途的适用性及碳固存、碳价格政策的有效性等 [16,17] ，同时一系列评估土地用途适用性和政策有效性的方法也得到了关注 [18] 。中国作为碳排放大国，近十多年来，关于 LULUCF 的研究以张小全 [1,[19][20][21] 、李玉娥 [22][23][24] 、刘硕 [22,23] 、赵志平 [25] 和李智勇 [26]…”

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Research progress of forestry carbon issues related to land use, land-use change and forestry

XU¹,

TAO²,

Yang³

2019

资源科学

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The carbon issues associated with land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) is an important issue affecting adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Clarifying the international research progress related to forestry and carbon issues in the past 20 years is of great significance for the formulation and adjustment of forestry policies in response to climate change. This article analyzes 175 documents in the Web of Science database from 1999 to 2018 and summarizes the research trends of LULUCF carbon research with the CiteSpace tool. The results show that: (1) The current research topics of LULUCF are "improvement of systems and methods," "forest management behavior,"and"environmental objectives."(2) Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States are the main countries studying LULUCF. They focus on deforestation, forestry projects, economic issues, and sectoral response mechanisms respectively. (3) The focuses of social science research on LULUCF are land use management, response mechanism of policies, and economic problems. The main methods are engineering management and economics approaches represented by scenario analysis and general equilibrium models. This article provides some relevant suggestions for future research on LULUCF: improving LULUCF carbon accounting methods and the theory and means of monitoring land use and dynamic changes; paying attention to the scientific evaluation of forest management projects and its influence on the adjustment of forestry policies; and accelerating LULUCF carbon budget research and the formulation of emission reduction plans by land use sectors.

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The elephant in the room – A comparative study of uncertainties in carbon offsets

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies

Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies

Active Management of Heat Customers Towards Lower District Heating Return Water Temperature

Research progress of forestry carbon issues related to land use, land-use change and forestry

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