Decoupling energy use and economic growth: Counter evidence from structural effects and embodied energy in trade
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Decoupling economic growth from energy consumption is a wide spread attempt to decarbonize economic activities and increase energy security. Almost all members of the European Union have decoupled the two since 2005 as measured by a steady decline in energy intensity, the ratio of final energy consumption and gross domestic product. Economic growth, energy efficiency and structural changes have all contributed to changes in energy intensity of economic activities at the national level. In this article, the authors analyze to what extent decoupling can be attributed to each of these three factors and in particular structural effects, namely deindustrialization and tertiarization, which shifts energy consumption abroad and re-imports it as embodied energy in products.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Pollution
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Daniel Hausknost
- Dominik Wiedenhofer
- M. Pichler
- Paul E. Brockway
- G. Semieniuk
- Barbara Plank
- G. Kalt
- T. Fishman
In Environmental Engineering
- H. Haberl
- F. Krausmann
- Dominik Wiedenhofer
- Daniel Hausknost
- Andreas Mayer
- A. Schaffartzik
- T. Fishman
- Felix Creutzig
In Pollution
- F. Krausmann
- Daniel Hausknost
- Paul E. Brockway
- G. Semieniuk
- S. Sorrell
- Dominik Wiedenhofer
- H. Haberl
- Victor Court
Citations in the corpus
- A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (2020, background): “…displacements and problem shifting through international trade, e.g. ‘improvements’ of energy intensity (energy/GDP) resulting from increasing imports of embodied energy in imported goods that help reducing the need to produce these goods domestically (Moreau and Vuille 2018, Moreau et al 2019).”
- Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications (2021, background): “These examples of absolute decoupling have been partly achieved by ‘offshoring’ domestic manufacturing to other countries [12,13].”