Long-run carbon emission implications of energy-intensive infrastructure investments with a retrofit option

Energy Economics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 308-317

  Strand, Jon ^a   Miller, Sebastian ^b   Siddiqui, Sauleh ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrastructure investment; Long run energy consumption; Long term climate policy; Retrofits

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; CLIMATE POLICY; INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT; RETROFITS;

EID: 84908604722     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.10.002     Document Type: Article

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