Rebound effect on emissions of climate policy
Rebound effect on emissions of climate policy / Taoyuan Wei, Senior Research Fellow at CICERO, 27/02/2013
Energy efficiency improvement is one of climate policies to reduce carbon emissions. Most studies in the field focus on rebound effects of energy efficiency improvement on energy use. While it might be difficult to decouple energy use from economic growth, it may be relatively easier to decouple emissions from economic growth. An extreme example is to keep supply of fossil fuels constant or decreasing, then emissions from fossil fuels would probably be constant or decreasing…