This paper provides a description of the international energy projections elaborated with the POLES energy model for the purpose of analysing, in other papers of this issue, the impacts of technological change at world level and to 2030. Section 2 describes the key exogenous hypotheses on...

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the consequences of CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission reduction policies, as deriving, in a world perspective, from the Kyoto Protocol for the 2010 horizon. The basic methodological principles for the assessment of the Marginal Abatement Costs and for the quantification of...</sub>

This paper addresses the issue of the potential benefits from technological change in post Kyoto CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission reduction scenarios. In order to assess these benefits, it is necessary in Section 2 to define CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission entitlements by world region, in a way that allows both for a significant...</sub></sub>

This paper expands the outlook on future energy systems as it is presented in other contributions to this Special Issue in two ways. First, we put the medium-term scenarios developed by the TEEM Project into the context of longer-term studies. We do this by discussing the plausibility of...

The paper aims to identify both the major changes that have occurred in the energy sector during the past thirty years and the key driving forces that explain these changes. After a review of the key concepts provided by economic theory in order to analyse technical change in Section 2, Section...