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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al…
Maria Gröger, Victoria Schmid, Thomas Bruckner
This paper presents an empirical survey of energy-related investment decisions made by private households in Germany. The investment behaviour is segmented and discussed by applying the milieu approach. The decision makers are clustered in certain lifestyles,…
Zhiming Leng, Yihui Lei
Zhangjiajie, a World Natural Heritage, is located in Chinese Wuling hinterland and rich in forest resources with cov-erage rate 64.61 percent of forest. Zhangjiajie was listed in World Natural Heritage Catalogue by the UNESCO in 1992 and is one of the most im…
Andrew Lepone, Rizwan T Rahman, Jin Young Yang
This paper empirically examines the extent to which participants in the carbon market perceive EU ETS NAP and Verifications announcements to possess informational value. The study directs its attention to carbon returns and volatility movements around officia…
Mitsutsugu Hamamoto
The Top Runner Program, a new approach to enhancing the energy efficiency of appliances and vehicles, has been in-troduced in Japan. In this paper an empirical analysis of the impact of the program and the labeling systems on firms’ R&D efforts is carried out…
Constancio Zamora Ramírez, José María González González
Given the advent and spread of carbon assets, as well as the rapid development of financial markets and transactions related with them, this paper intends to achieve the objective of categorizing these phenomena and describing their main characteristics, in s…
Liping Chen, David Taylor
This paper aims to examine levels of awareness and performance relating to the promotion of a Low-carbon economy (LCE) among the general public in Zhengzhou, China. The data and information used were derived from 300 question-naires distributed randomly among…
João Carlos de Oliveira Matias, Tessaleno Campos Devezas
Scanning the last 250 years, we can observe five great technological transformations that happened in the socio-eco-nomic development. On the other hand, there is a relationship between the socio-economic development and the substi-tution process of primary e…
Joseph P. Fuhr, Stephen Pociask
This study examines how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. through the widespread delivery of broadband services and the expansion of telecommuting. Telecommuting can reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10 years by approximately 588.2 to…
Xue-song Gao, Xiao-jiao Luo, Liang-ji Deng, Min Zeng
Based on the emergy theory proposed by H. T. Odum, the material metabolism of eco-economic system in Chongqing during 2002 ~ 2007 is analyzed. The results show that 1) the total available emergy in Chongqing is quite abundant and the economy is relatively mor…
Xia Gui, Zhigang Tang, Weiyang Fei
The solubility of CO2 in ester mixtures under high pressures are studied in this article. The constant-volume method is used to determine the solubility of CO2 in DMC + diethyl carbonate system, DMC + propyl acetate system, DMC + propylene carbonate system, a…
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