Energy efficiency is often cited as a critical component of mitigation pathways that avoid the worst effects of climate change but suffers from chronic underinvestment. This paper evaluates the efficacy of a range of voluntary approaches—monetary incentives, information and behavioral...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly viewed as both a potential driver of environmental sustainability and a contributor to global energy demand. Yet little is known about how the public interprets these dual narratives. We conducted a pre-registered online experiment (N =...

The timing of payment can enhance salience, making customers more price-responsive when paying before consumption rather than after. This study examines Indonesia’s nationwide switch to prepaid electricity metering, impacting over 40 million households. We find that prepaid metering users are...

The timing of payment can enhance salience, making customers more price-responsive when paying before consumption rather than after. This study examines Indonesia's nationwide switch to prepaid electricity metering, impacting over 40 million households. We find that prepaid metering users are...

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...

Energy efficiency is often cited as a critical component of mitigation pathways that avoid the worst effects of climate change but suffers from chronic underinvestment. This paper evaluates the efficacy of a range of voluntary approaches-monetary incentives, information and behavioral...

Improving the energy efficiency of the residential housing sector represents a key challenge in meeting Ireland's carbon reduction targets. While challenges exist across the sector in terms of incentivising upgrades, these difficulties are more pronounced in the rental sector, which suffers from...

Feedback interventions are a promising tool for promoting household energy conservation and addressing climate change. This study examines whether their effectiveness improves with incentivized energy saving goals through a field experiment involving 422 Singaporean households over eight months....

Energy management can be designed from different perspectives including production, distribution, and consumption. Focusing on consumption perspective, manufacturing systems can be enhanced by enabling smart machines as agents which operate with their own knowledge representation models in a...

Following the Paris Agreement, economic development demands energy services while reducing emissions. This study focuses on non-residential natural gas consumption, which plays a crucial role in the energy transition; however, market-based mechanisms are still in the early stages and have not...

The transition towards energy-efficient practices in the food supply chain (FSC) is essential for addressing the dual imperatives of sustainability and cost-effectiveness. As consumers become increasingly aware of the environmental impact of their food choices, their willingness to support...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered an energy crisis in Germany, with consumer energy prices skyrocketing over the course of the year. Due to concerns about gas shortages, various programs aimed at reducing consumption were set up and the German Federal Government and numerous...

The energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional...

This approach paper advocates for energy efficiency (EE) to be prioritized and scaled up-necessitating its elevation in energy sector policies, targets and programs, for both low- and middle-income countries (LICs and MICs). It draws on the lessons learned through the World Bank Group's (WBG's)...

The study aims to test the renewable energy productivity and energy efficiency for energy projects with the role of cost of capital in China from 2009 to 2023. The study examined the results with correlation analysis, cointegration analysis, efficiency analysis, and generalized methods of...

Achieving a decarbonized society requires balancing two critical and seemingly conflicting objectives: reducing energy consumption and ensuring energy demand flexibility to adapt to the variability of renewable energy production. This study introduces "energy demand science" as a...

Both World Bank shareholders and the Bank’s management have emphasised the need for large-scale private investment to achieve development and climate goals. For the World Bank Group, this means collaborating more closely between its different institutions, an issue that World Bank President...

This report discusses the latest status of the energy consumption trends in the European Union (EU), focusing on the four main energy-consuming sectors: residential, tertiary, transport, and industry. During the last few years, there have been notable efforts by the EU to cut energy consumption...

This report examines the determinants of changes in primary and final energy consumption at EU27 and Member State levels over the period 2010 to 2022 to track and understand the progress towards 2030 energy efficiency targets. Energy consumption trends are driven by several factors beyond energy...

Recognizing the crucial role of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this report is set within the broader context of the European Commission's global and regional initiatives, underscoring the commitment to the Global Gateway...

The project focuses on transforming cooking practices in Rwanda through locally produced, affordable, and efficient cookstoves. It has scaled up production and distribution of clean cookstoves, integrating circular economy strategies and local materials to lower costs. This initiative has...

Recognizing the crucial role of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this report is set within the broader context of the European Commission's global and regional initiatives, underscoring the commitment to the Global Gateway...

Buildings play a pivotal role in the European Union's energy policies, accounting for 40% of total energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. The EU, through initiatives like the Green Deal and the REPowerEU Plan, is actively working towards ambitious targets of reducing GHG...

This research aims to inquire about the influence of energy markets on reshaping green recovery by studying the role of energy resource efficiency in energy reforms in China. Data was obtained from 2012 to 2019 to test the findings of this data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique. The study...

The transition from traditional labor intensive to modern capital intensive production is a key factor for industrial development. Using half a million observations from Indian manufacturing plants, I analyze the effects of a secular decrease in industrial electricity prices through the lens of...

Credit is being developed at a pivotal point in environmental sustainability to promote the dual carbon goal, lower emissions, and ease the shift from high-carbon to low-carbon energy sources. This study looks into the relationship between energy savings and environmentally friendly credit using...

Promoting urban energy transition is essential for achieving environmental sustainability, yet how to effectively guide this process through public policy remains a key research question. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of government policy in facilitating urban energy transition,...

Using the panel data of 244 cities from 2011 to 2020, this paper constructs temperature deviation indicators and evaluates the effects of climate change on electricity consumption from an adaptive behavioral perspective. This paper finds that cooling degree days (CDD) push up electricity...

Improving the energy efficiency of the residential housing sector represents a key challenge in meeting Ireland's carbon reduction targets. While challenges exist across the sector in terms of incentivising upgrades, these difficulties are more pronounced in the rental sector, which suffers from...

The construction industry has a crucial place in any country's economy. However, compared to other sectors, construction companies have been relatively slow to adopt new technologies, while most companies in different sectors have already begun to adopt the latest technologies to renovate their...

This study presents a systematic review of the academic literature on electric and hybrid vehicles, their ecosystems, and supporting infrastructure over the period 2008-2024. Using the PRISMA methodology, the research evaluates related studies, exploring trends and developments in charging...

Energy efficiency potentially reduces global carbon emissions, whereas the need of emerging countries to maintain economic growth and development entails a sharp increase in energy consumption. However, to meet this, current energy systems need to be transformed. Several studies find different...

Leveraging data from the European Investment Survey (EIBIS) spanning 2019-2022, encompassing the pandemic crisis and the 2022 energy price shocks, our study investigates how uncertainty influence firms' climate action investment decisions in Europe at a time of one of the largest energy shocks...