Our paper aims at evaluating the provisions of the EU climate change and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as articulating the EU’s position with regard to sustainable development. In particular, we analyse the provisions and the outcomes stemming from the UN Convention on...

The article analyzes current status of and development trends in the power industry in a competitive electricity market. The most probable scenario of structural and technological modernization of the power industry and restructuring of the energy market are discussed. Technological foresight...

This article aims to examine the concept of development of sectoral technology platforms as a mechanism of innovative development, which allows mobilization of the whole range of available resources into a coordinated system focused on the achievement of the stated priorities of the national...

European Union adapted the policy of reducing its carbon footprint and embarked on the journey to shift to renewable energy sources in the early 1990s. The whole process started with implementations of binding rules that set up indicative targets for the EU Member States. However, this process...

This paper is dealing with the economic analysis of the consequences of three selected doomsday scenarios that were to take place on the 21st of December 2012. Although most of the devastating scenarios are not of any interest for the economists, since the complete extinction of human race would...