The demand for environmental quality in driving transitions to low-polluting energy sources
The demand for environmental quality in driving transitions to low-polluting energy sources
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10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.068
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
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9
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Fouquet, Roger
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作者：
Fouquet, Roger
本文的目的是了解与能源相关的环境质量的长期需求，它对立法和向低污染能源过渡的影响。它呈现了英国历史上一系列要求改善与能源相关的环境质量的事件。这些事件帮助确定了一些案例，在特定的经济条件下，市场在一定程度上推动了向低污染能源的过渡。更广泛地说，他们表明，当被推动时，政府将引入环境立法，尽管它往往是软弱和执行不力的。在空气污染问题上，强有力和具有约束力的立法比社会最理想的时间晚了大约一百年。基于这一证据，为了向低碳经济转型，各国政府可能需要引入有重点和有约束力的立法，如果没有对气候稳定的强劲和持续需求，这是不可能实现的。这一要求将需要由压力团体带头提出立法，执行立法，并避免被未来的政府推翻。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
The purpose of this paper is to understand the long run demand for energy-related environmental quality, its influence on legislation and on transitions to low polluting energy sources. It presents a series of episodes in British history where a demand for improvements in energy-related environmental quality existed. These episodes helped to identify a few cases where markets partially drove transitions to low polluting energy sources, in specific economic conditions. More generally, they showed that, when pushed, governments will introduce environmental legislation, although it tends to be weak and poorly enforced. In the case of air pollution, strong and binding legislation occurred roughly one hundred years later than was socially optimal. Based on this evidence, for a transition to a low carbon economy, governments will probably need to introduce focussed and binding legislation, and this cannot be expected without strong and sustained demand for climate stability. This demand will need to be spearheaded by pressure groups to introduce legislation, to enforce it and to avoid it being over-turned by future governments. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.