Energy Efficiency Innovation, Diffusion and the Rebound Effect

该项目旨在帮助量化能源效率政策和计划在全球范围内节省的净能源。它的目的是调查能源效率创新从技术领先的国家传播到世界各国的速度，并实证衡量在整个经济层面上抵消能效提高的反弹效应的规模。各国政府和国际组织越来越多地关注能效政策，以减少温室气体排放和改善能源安全，但关于这些政策是否有可能真正节约能源，从而减少排放的信息很少。项目成果可能有助于设计具有成本效益的能源和气候政策。

This project aims to help quantify the net energy saved globally from energy efficiency policies and programs. It aims to investigate the speed at which energy efficiency innovations spread to countries across the world from technologically leading countries and to measure empirically the size of the rebound effect that offsets energy efficiency improvements at the economy-wide level. Governments and international organisations are increasingly looking to energy efficiency policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, but there is little information on the potential for these policies to actually save energy and, therefore, reduce emissions. Project results may help in the design of cost-effective energy and climate policies.