Abstract
European researchers have made strong efforts to scientifically quantify the so-called energy “external costs”, i.e. the social and environmental damages coming from the production and use of energy. Today, after years of research and if still many uncertainties exist, a clear awareness about the necessity to internalise external costs starts to appear in the European Union decision-making process.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
European Commission, ExternE: Externalities of Energy, Vol. 1-10, OPEC, Luxembourg, 1995 and 1999 and European Commission, External Costs, OPEC, Luxemburg, 2003.
Marchipont J.-F., Rossetti di Valdalbero D., External Costs: The European Commission’s approach in the area of research, Pollution Atmosphérique, Paris, December 2001.
European Commission Communication on the Sixth Environment Action Programme of the European Community, COM(2001)31, 24/1/2001.
European Commission, Green paper: towards a European strategy for the security of energy supply, COM(2000)769, 29/11/2000.
European Commission, White Paper on European transport policy for 2010, COM(2001)370, 12/9/2001.
European Commission, Community guidelines on State aid for environmental protection, OJEC C 37, 3/2/2001.
European Commission, proposal for a directive amending directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures, COM(2003)448, 23/7/2003
European Directive 2001/77/EC on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy source in the internal electricity market, OJEC, L 283.
European projects RECORDIT (http://www.recordit.org), ECOSIT (http://www.isis-it.comIdocIprogetto. asp?id=46) and UNITE (http://Iwww.its.leeds.ac.ukIprojects/unite/ index.htm.
Friedrich R., Bickel P., Environmental External Costs of Transport, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
European Commission, Towards a European Research Area, COM(2000)6, 18/1/2000.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag London
About this paper
Cite this paper
di Valdalbero, D.R. (2004). Quantification and Tentative Internalisation of Energy External Costs in the European Union. In: Spitzer, C., Schmocker, U., Dang, V.N. (eds) Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-410-4_370
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-410-4_370
Publisher Name: Springer, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-4471-1057-6
Online ISBN: 978-0-85729-410-4
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive