Energy efficiency, rebound effects and the environmental Kuznets Curve

By K. Turner, N. Hanley. 2011

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Technological change is one factor used to justify the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve, and technological improvements have been argued to be a key factor in mitigating the impacts of economic growth on environmental quality. In this paper we use a CGE model of the Scottish economy to consider the factors influencing the impacts of one form of technological change-improvements in energy efficiency-on absolute levels of CO2 emissions, on the carbon intensity of the economy (CO2 emissions relative to real GDP), and the per capita EKC relationship. These factors include the elasticity of substitution between energy and non-energy inputs, responses in the labour market and the structure of the economy. Our results demonstrate the key role played by the general equilibrium price elasticity of demand for energy, and the relative influence of different factors on this parameter.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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An empirical study of direct rebound effect for passenger transport in urban China (2012, background): “Many researchers have devoted to estimate the rebound effect for various sectors in different countries, e.g. Bentzen (2004), Allan et al. (2007), Barker et al. (2007), Saunders (2008), Turner (2009), Freire Gonzalez (2010), Turner and Hanley (2010) and Wei (2010).”
Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications (2021, background): “In practice, these different effects occur simultaneously and their net result - the economy-wide rebound effect – is normally expressed as a percentage of the expected economy-wide energy savings, as estimated from a counterfactual scenario where none of these adjustments occur [60,61].”
Voluntary disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and business performance: assessing the first decade of reporting (2017, background): “At the heart of this question lies an extensive related thread of literature concerned with establishing the veracity or otherwise of the ‘Jevons Paradox’ and its more contemporary evocation as ‘the rebound effect’ (Saunders 1992, Turner and Hanley 2011). Jevons conjectured that technological progre”
Energy innovation and renewable energy consumption in the correction of air pollution levels (2017, background): “MARK energy sector and the impact of shares of fossil and renewable energy sources in the energy mix throughout the transition from developing (low-income) to developed (high-income) economy (Wackernagel et al., 1999; Turner and Hanley, 2011; UK Climate Change Committee, 2008).”
How economic growth, renewable electricity and natural resources contribute to CO2 emissions? (2018, background): “…an economy achieves a high income, society will demand a high-quality environment, which will require efforts in the form of environmental regulations to promote technical effects through more efficient and less polluting energy production actions (Bruvoll et al., 2003; Turner and Hanley, 2011).”
Environmental degradation in France: The effects of FDI, financial development, and energy innovations (2018, background): “…of technological factors in mitigating environmental degradation also implies that efforts shall be made to avoid the obsolescence of technology, which is very often done via regulation of technological development (Bruvoll et al., 2003; Turner and Hanley, 2011; and Álvarez-Herránz et al., 2017).”
The economy-wide rebound effect from improved energy efficiency in Swedish industries–A general equilibrium analysis (2015, background): “Turner and Hanley (2011) finds backfire in both the short and long run in the UK when the elasticities of substitution concerning energy are assumed to be above unity.2 Previous sensitivity analyses only concerns the long-run elasticities of substitution (Turner and Hanley, 2011).”
“Rebound” Effects from Increased Energy Efficiency: A Time to Pause and Reflect (2013, background): “However, the relatively small set of general equilibrium and non-equilibrium economy-wide studies (reviewed in Sorrell, 2007, with more recent rebound focussed case studies including Anson and Turner, 2009; Barker, 2007; Barker et al., 2009; Turner and Hanley, 2011; Wei, 2010), while putting forward”
The CO2-Growth nexus revisited: A nonparametric analysis for G7 economies over nearly two centuries (2017, unknown): “Turner and Hanley (2011) employ a computable general equilibrium model of the Scottish economy to consider the factors influencing the relationship between CO2 emissions and real GDP and the per capita EKC relationship.”