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The role of price incentives in enhancing carbon sequestration in the forestry sector of HungaryForest Policy and Economics - scholarly articlesPublished: 13 of November, 2023

This paper investigates the carbon sequestration potential of forests in Hungary through the introduction of a carbon price incentive, assuming an integrative national climate policy. We have developed a bio-economic mathematical optimisation model (FOX ...

Is border carbon adjustment the right tool for the power sector?Climate Policy - scholarly articlesPublished: 5 of March, 2022

Carbon leakage occurs in any carbon pricing regime that is not global, which means all of them so far. That is inherently unfair to sectors that are subject to a carbon price but compete with those that are not. The European Green Deal aims to rectify ...

Temperate climate – Contradictory effects of international and national climate policies in HungaryBudapest Management Review - scholarly articlesPublished: 28 of November, 2019

This paper investigates the trend and the influencing factors of greenhouse gas (carbon) emissions in Hungary with a special focus on the sectors under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The authors find that changes in carbon intensity of ...

South East Europe electricity roadmap – modelling energy transition in the electricity sectorsClimate Policy - scholarly articlesPublished: 10 of October, 2018

One of the most important challenges for the South East Europe region will be replacing more than 30% of its presently installed fossil fuel generation capacity by the end of 2030, and more than 95% by 2050 if its age structure is considered. This ...

SEERMAP COUNTRY REPORTSbooks, chaptersPublished: 20 of October, 2017

The SEERMAP project has produced its final reports of the target countries in the South East European region providing country specific details on the long term electricity sector transformation scenarios till 2050. These reports give insights to the ...

Energy Scenarios for SE Europe: A close look into the Western BalkansJRC Conference and Workshop Report - other articlesPublished: 2 of December, 2016

The workshop included three sessions of specific thematic focus. The first session provided the "regional picture" with forecasts on the development of the energy and power systems in the western Balkans. The second session discussed case studies on low ...

An ex-ante evaluation of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive - Article 7Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 2016 - scholarly articlesPublished: 10 of August, 2016

The European Union's Energy Efficiency Directive calls for EU Member States to put in place ambitious energy efficiency policies and requires them to establish energy saving targets. One of the most important Articles of the Directive is Article 7, which ...

Fossil or hydro based capacity development? - Power sector modelling in the South-East European RegionEEM 2016 conference: Modelling, simulation and forecasting of energy and carbon markets: Markets and Policy II - scholarly articlesPublished: 8 of June, 2016

This paper analyses the impact of current generation and interconnection capacity plans on the generation mix of the five South East European countries (Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) in the context of carbon price levels ...

Twinning: lessons for a South—North climate policy contextClimate Policy 2009 - scholarly articlesPublished: 1 of September, 2015

Twinning is an innovative tool utilized in the EU enlargement process. It is designed to strengthen the institutional capacities of the candidate countries to implement the acquis communautaire. Twinning involves the long-term secondment of a Member ...

Physical and economic consequences of climate change in EuropeProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the Unites States of America, 2011 - scholarly articlesPublished: 30 of December, 2010

Quantitative estimates of the economic damages of climate change usually are based on aggregate relationships linking average temperature change to loss in gross domestic product (GDP). However, there is a clear need for further detail in the regional ...