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Externalities of Energy. Volume 4, Oil & gas
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The current debate about the environmental and economic effects of energy use is now turning towards the internalisation of externalities to assist policy and decision making. The European Commission and the US Department of Energy recognised such developments at the beginning of the 1990's. At this time, the concept of externalities had been established for over half a century in the field of welfare economics; however, few studies had considered the evaluation of externalities associated with energy, and those that had, used a very aggregated approach. As a result, a joint research project was launched to assess the environmental externalities of energy use. The prime objective was to develop a common comprehensive methodology, based on shared scientific and economic information. Initial effort focused on the evaluation of the externalities associated with the coal and nuclear fuel cycles. Four years later, this initiative has proved extremely successful and has generated substantial results. Today, an operational accounting framework exists for the external costs of fuels cycles (named 'ExternE' in Europe). It has been used both in the United States and the European Union, to produce directly comparable assessments. A recent high level workshop organised by OECD, IEA and EC underlined the contribution which this EC-US Project has made by establishing a world-wide reference point in this difficult area of energy externalities. However, the task is not yet complete. The European Union's new RTD Framework programme defines three priorities for the follow-up project. Firstly, the accounting framework has to be disseminated throughout the EU, i.e. to all the 15 countries taking part in the larger Community Green Accounting Programme. Secondly, some major issues have to be solved, in particular the evaluation of global warming impacts, the evaluation of major accidents, and the overall treatment and presentation of uncertainty in the assessments. The third priority is for the incorporation of externalities within decision making, which will obviously be helped by the availability of the accounting framework.
- Veröffentlicht am:
- Korporative(r) Verfasser: ETSU , Generaldirektion Forschung und Innovation (Europäische Kommission) , IER
- Themen: Energiepolitik , Umweltpolitik und Umweltschutz , Energie und Umwelt
- Thema: Bekämpfung der Umweltbelastungen , Energieforschung , Erdöltechnologie , EU-Politik , Forschung und Entwicklung , Forschungspolitik der EU , Gas , Gesundheitsrisiko , Innovation , Umweltverschmutzung durch Kohlenwasserstoffe , vergleichende Studie , vergleichender Test , wissenschaftliche Forschung
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| ISSN 1018-5593 | ISBN 92-827-5213-5 | DOI | Katalognummer CG-NA-16-523-EN-C |
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