Article
Energy & Fuels
Giacomo Di Foggia, Massimo Beccarello, Marco Borgarello, Francesca Bazzocchi, Stefano Moscarelli
Summary: This paper provides insights into the white certificate scheme through a case study analysis of Italy's scheme. The scheme is characterized by flexibility and the involvement of energy services companies, making it a valuable reference for designing similar schemes in other countries and improving energy efficiency.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yuhao Ba
Summary: COP26 emphasizes the importance of near-term emissions reductions and the changing political landscapes have highlighted the role of non-state actors in climate action. However, the performance of non-state climate action remains uncertain and needs empirical validation. This study focuses on corporate entities and examines the potential impact of corporate leadership on climate governance performance. The findings suggest that the effect of corporate leadership on performance is contingent, influenced by factors such as citizen support and operational uncertainty.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Wang Rongjuan
Summary: This paper uses fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to explore the combined effect of policy instruments and the policy environment on the environmental governance efficiency of local governance. The study identifies effective and ineffective modes of local government environmental governance and reveals the reasons for the low efficiency.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Harry D. Saunders, Joyashree Roy, Ines M. L. Azevedo, Debalina Chakravarty, Shyamasree Dasgupta, Stephane De la Rue Du Can, Angela Druckman, Roger Fouquet, Michael Grubb, Boqiang Lin, Robert Lowe, Reinhard Madlener, Daire M. Mccoy, Luis Mundaca, Tadj Oreszczyn, Steven Sorrell, David Stern, Kanako Tanaka, Taoyuan Wei
Summary: After 40 years of research, energy efficiency initiatives are generally perceived as highly effective, with innovation contributing to lowering energy technology costs and increasing energy productivity. However, rebound effects at the macro level still warrant careful policy attention.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, VOL 46, 2021
(2021)
Article
Economics
Gerrit Rentier, Herman Lelieveldt, Gert Jan Kramer
Summary: This paper compares the use of policy instruments and the deployment of offshore wind power in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands between 1990 and 2020. It finds that governments in Liberal Market Economies tend to use policy instruments that privatize investments and risk-taking, while those in Coordinated Market Economies use policy instruments that facilitate investments and shared risk-taking.
Review
Environmental Studies
Xiaoran Li, Philipp Pattberg, Oscar Widerberg
Summary: China plays a crucial role in achieving global climate goals, but there is a lack of holistic understanding of its role in climate governance. Current literature focuses on specific levels and case studies, neglecting the coherence among policy levels and instruments, as well as the role of non-state actors. Future research should address these gaps and consider domestic motivations, institutional arrangements, and the limited participation of non-state actors in China's climate governance.
Article
Environmental Studies
Fredrik von Malmborg
Summary: The EU legislators have made the 'energy efficiency first' principle legally binding for Member States in policy, planning, and major investment decisions. This article conducts a discourse analysis to explore the politics of the EE1 principle in EU energy and climate policy. Two distinct discourses with different storylines were identified, one focusing on the multiple benefits of energy efficiency and a stronger role for the EE1 principle, and the other focusing on climate change mitigation and a weaker role for EE1. The use of discursive techniques helped overcome these dualities and can assist policymakers in shaping future strategies.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Economics
Renata Leonhardt, Bram Noble, Greg Poelzer, Ken Belcher, Patricia Fitzpatrick
Summary: Energy insecurity is a daily reality for remote and Indigenous communities in the North. Community energy is seen as a solution, but its success depends on accessible government instruments. This paper critically assesses government support for community energy in northern and Indigenous communities in Canada. Results show a range of available instruments, with financial supports and community ownership emerging as dominant needs. However, capacity issues and competition for resources hinder access to support, highlighting the importance of diverse and community-sensitive instruments.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Anastasio J. Villanueva, Klaus Glenk
Summary: The study examines irrigators' preferences towards policy instruments in southern Spain, finding high preferences for water storage account and improved infrastructure, while low preferences for water banks and markets. Preference heterogeneity was high, with irrigators categorized into market haters, pond haters, bank haters, and pond lovers.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Economics
Shuangmei Li, Xuehong Zhu, Tao Zhang
Summary: Based on the new structural economics view, this study explores the combination of environmental policy instruments and marketization to improve the total factor energy-environmental efficiency in China's metal sector. The evaluation results indicate an increasing trend in energy-environmental efficiency, but with disparities between sub-sectors and regions. The study also verifies the efficacy of different environmental policy instruments, with the threshold values of marketization varying for each instrument.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Martin Bjorklund, Fredrik von Malmborg, Johan Nordensvard
Summary: The building sector is a significant contributor to global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union is a leader in climate governance and energy efficiency. However, there are challenges in policy instruments, transitioning, and renovations of existing buildings.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Xi Ji, Guowei Wu, Jie Lin, Jingru Zhang, Pinyi Su
Summary: This paper explores the selection and configuration of environmental policy instruments within a clearly defined scope of the market mechanism and government intervention. The authors conducted a systematic review of 111 representative literature, tracing the theoretical development of these instruments and analyzing empirical evidence based on the CGE model. The findings suggest a shift from command-based to market-based instruments, combining quantity-based and price-based approaches, and a reasonable allocation of both command-based and market-based instruments. The CGE model plays an important role in validating efficiency theories, identifying efficiency losses, and promoting the implementation of environmental tools through region-specific settings and simulations. The authors propose that the market should play a dominant role in resource allocation for long-term environmental goals, with command-based instruments employed in cases of market failures.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Fredrik von Malmborg
Summary: This study uses the advocacy coalition framework to analyze policy change in European Union energy efficiency policy, focusing on the case study of the energy efficiency directive and its provisions on individual metering and billing. The research confirms the importance of internal shocks for policy change and highlights the role of policy-oriented learning in shaping policies.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
L. L. B. Lazaro, R. S. Soares, C. Bermann, F. M. A. Collaco, L. L. Giatti, S. Abram
Summary: Energy transition requires systemic changes and considerations of spatial and policy dimensions. The analysis of Sao Paulo state's energy production and consumption history shows a trend of increasing fossil fuel consumption despite the growth of renewable energies. Additionally, energy governance in Brazil remains centralized, lacking involvement of local governments.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Vincenzo Bianco, Clara Marmori
Summary: This study analyzes the energy efficiency opportunities in the Italian residential sector and proposes a flexible model applicable to other countries. The model demonstrates that the target of saving 38.4 TWh by 2030 is achievable without a challenging effort and suggests that a more ambitious objective can be realistically achieved with more radical renovation measures and a larger number of buildings involved.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Johan Rockstroem, Joyeeta Gupta, Timothy M. Lenton, Dahe Qin, Steven J. Lade, Jesse F. Abrams, Lisa Jacobson, Juan C. Rocha, Caroline Zimm, Xuemei Bai, Govindasamy Bala, Stefan Bringezu, Wendy Broadgate, Stuart E. Bunn, Fabrice DeClerck, Kristie L. Ebi, Peng Gong, Chris Gordon, Norichika Kanie, Diana M. Liverman, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Peter H. Verburg, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Ricarda Winkelmann
Summary: The article outlines a framework for defining and quantifying target ranges for a safe and just corridor. Safety primarily refers to a stable Earth system, while just targets are related to meeting human needs and reducing risks. By addressing the equity dimensions of each safe target and Earth system regulating systems, alignment between safe and just dimensions is proposed.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Elvia Aida Marin-Monroy, Victor Hernandez-Trejo, Miguel Angel Ojeda-Ruiz De la Pena, Eleonora Romero-Vadillo, Antonina Ivanova-Boncheva
Summary: Climate change has led to severe consequences of hydrometeorological phenomena, particularly affecting Los Cabos, Mexico, due to its exposure to tropical cyclones. The study aimed to capture community perceptions about vulnerability to tropical cyclones, revealing discrepancies between perceptions and actual impacts, with 64% of households categorized as highly vulnerable.Variables related to knowledge and local or foreigner status were predictors of vulnerability perception, with georeferenced flood hazard maps used as an adaptation strategy.
Article
Environmental Studies
Christian Salvadeo, Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Hector Reyes-Bonilla, Antonina Ivanova-Bonchera, David Petatan Ramirez, Eduardo Juarez-Leon
Summary: Fishing activities are vulnerable to climate change, especially in fishery-dependent coastal communities with low economic diversification. Adaptation measures, such as economic diversification, improvement in processing and commercialization of fishery products, and enhanced fisheries management, are crucial in reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Mexico has the policy framework in place for these measures, but requires financing and more efficient regulatory processes to address the rapid effects of climate change in marine systems.
Article
Economics
Joyeeta Gupta, Aarti Gupta, Courtney Vegelin
Summary: This article reviews the coverage of environmental justice issues in this journal over the past two decades, explores different theoretical and empirical approaches to justice, and provides recommendations for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS-POLITICS LAW AND ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: This article examines the evolution of water property rights in investor-State contracts regarding mineral, petroleum, and land issues in Africa and Asia. The study finds that water allocation is not only governed by a State's water law, but also implicitly regulated by contracts and international investment treaties. The granting of contracts to foreign international investors results in the de facto privatization of water, reducing the State's ability to regulate water resources during the contract term. Furthermore, long-term quasi property rights granted to investors in these contracts pose challenges to adaptive water governance in the face of increasing climate change impacts.
REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
S. A. Te Wierik, J. Keune, D. G. Miralles, J. Gupta, Y. A. Artzy-Randrup, L. Gimeno, R. Nieto, L. H. Cammeraat
Summary: The redistribution of terrestrial evaporation through atmospheric circulation and precipitation is crucial for the Earth system, especially in sparsely sampled regions like Africa. Understanding the variability in the dependency of precipitation on transpiration is important for regional moisture recycling and ecosystem functioning.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: This article explores the evolution of legal knowledge on private property rights in water worldwide and how these rights are embedded in existing legal constructions. It argues that while most states have placed water in the public domain, the difficulty of abolishing past statutory systems of water rights has led to successful demands by Indigenous peoples for recognition and reclamation of their water rights. States are reallocating water rights through statutory mechanisms, but this has also created confusion and affected the state's ability to adaptively govern water resources.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Johan Rockstroem, Joyeeta Gupta, Dahe Qin, Steven J. Lade, Jesse F. Abrams, Lauren S. Andersen, David I. Armstrong McKay, Xuemei Bai, Govindasamy Bala, Stuart E. Bunn, Daniel Ciobanu, Fabrice DeClerck, Kristie Ebi, Lauren Gifford, Christopher Gordon, Syezlin Hasan, Norichika Kanie, Timothy M. Lenton, Sina Loriani, Diana M. Liverman, Awaz Mohamed, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Daniel Ospina, Klaudia Prodani, Crelis Rammelt, Boris Sakschewski, Joeri Scholtens, Ben Stewart-Koster, Thejna Tharammal, Detlef van Vuuren, Peter H. Verburg, Ricarda Winkelmann, Caroline Zimm, Elena M. Bennett, Stefan Bringezu, Wendy Broadgate, Pamela A. Green, Lei Huang, Lisa Jacobson, Christopher Ndehedehe, Simona Pedde, Juan Rocha, Marten Scheffer, Lena Schulte-Uebbing, Wim de Vries, Cunde Xiao, Chi Xu, Xinwu Xu, Noelia Zafra-Calvo, Xin Zhang
Summary: The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are closely linked but often treated independently. This study proposes safe and just Earth system boundaries to maintain stability and minimize harm to humans from Earth system change. Findings show that justice considerations have a greater impact on setting boundaries than safety considerations.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Joyeeta Gupta, Diana Liverman, Klaudia Prodani, Paulina Aldunce, Xuemei Bai, Wendy Broadgate, Daniel Ciobanu, Lauren Gifford, Chris Gordon, Margot Hurlbert, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, Lisa Jacobson, Norichika Kanie, Steven J. J. Lade, Timothy M. M. Lenton, David Obura, Chukwumerije Okereke, Ilona M. M. Otto, Laura Pereira, Johan Rockstroem, Joeri Scholtens, Juan Rocha, Ben Stewart-Koster, J. David Tabara, Crelis Rammelt, Peter H. Verburg
Summary: Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just. Through collaboration between natural and social scientists, the Earth Commission defines and operationalizes Earth system justice to ensure that boundaries reduce harm, increase well-being, and reflect substantive and procedural justice.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Review
Environmental Studies
Augusto Heras, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: Complying with the Paris Agreement requires leaving fossil fuels underground (LFFU), which raises justice issues in the Global South. This review highlights that renewable investments in the Global South are still relatively low, and such deployment is more additive than substitutive. However, there is potential for leapfrogging in the Global South. Literature on LFFU in the Global South is limited, primarily focusing on subsidies. Nonetheless, integrating stranded assets in developing countries' accounting could make LFFU attractive. The Right to Development influences the governance and justice issues of the energy transition, and power dynamics play a crucial role. However, a global and multilevel just transition may achieve LFFU.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Joyeeta Gupta, Klaudia Prodani, Xuemi Bai, Lauren Gifford, Tim M. Lenton, Ilona Otto, Laura Pereira, Crelis Rammelt, Joeri Scholtens, Joan David Tabara
Summary: This passage discusses the inadequacy of global environmental assessments in addressing justice issues and proposes an Earth system justice framework as a guide for sharing limited ecospace in the global community. By analyzing how justice concerns are addressed in environmental assessments and global environmental change projects, an Earth system justice framework is developed, which focuses on achieving fair sharing of ecospace through setting Earth system boundaries and providing minimum resource needs, and addressing inequality, overconsumption, and harmful accumulation through equitable redistribution of resources, rights, and responsibilities.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
(2023)
Review
Environmental Studies
Clara Mcdonnell, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: This review paper explores strategies for institutional investors to influence the fossil fuel industry and their implications for achieving an inclusive fossil fuel phase-out. Through a systematic review of research papers, seven strategies for influencing the phase-out are identified. The paper highlights the need for future research on the role of under-studied actors, the implications of investor action for an inclusive energy transition, and policy solutions to incentivize long-term investor engagement with climate issues. Legal mandates and decarbonization strategies are necessary to align finance with climate goals.
Article
Environmental Studies
Joeri Scholtens, Derek Johnson, Svein Jentoft, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Joyeeta Gupta, Marloes Kraan, Ajit Menon, Dik Roth
Summary: Maarten Bavinck has made significant contributions to maritime studies and has inspired many with his ability to build bridges between people and ideas. His research spans legal pluralism, interactive governance, fisheries conflicts, and the environment-development interface, with a common focus on achieving social justice and making practical connections.
Article
Environmental Studies
Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta, Hebe Verrest
Summary: Through analyzing policies and laws of Anglophone and Francophone African and Asian countries, it is found that these states are moving towards putting water resources in the public domain and using permits for allocation, which may pose challenges in terms of existing legal and policy frameworks for water rights.
REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
S. A. Te Wierik, J. Keune, D. G. Miralles, J. Gupta, Y. A. Artzy-Randrup, L. Gimeno, R. Nieto, L. H. Cammeraat
Summary: This study investigates the contributions of biological and non-biological sources of evaporation in Africa to rainfall over major watersheds. It shows that almost 50% of the annual rainfall in Africa originates from transpiration, with large variability between watersheds, highlighting the importance of understanding implications for continental-scale water availability amidst current and projected land use changes.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2022)
