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Building a Consistent European Climate-Energy Policy

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The European Union (EU) has built over the past two decades a leadership position in the fight against climate change. However, despite significant progress made on greenhouse gasemissions reduction during this period, the effectiveness of piloting climate and energy policy at the EU level remains questionable. In this chapter, we strive to identify what role the EU can play to be most effective in fostering the implementation of ambitious energy transition policies. First, most energy transition-related projects are best managed at the local or national level, making the European level better equipped to act as a fundraiser or a pilot of transnational energy and transportation network infrastructures. This is highlighted by an analysis of the projects financed by the European Fund for Strategic Investments.

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    http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Greenhouse_gas_emission_statistics.

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    http://ec.europa.eu/budget/mff/figures/index_en.cfm.

    http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cs/policy/evaluations/data-for-research/.

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    https://www.euractiv.com/section/future-eu/news/commissions-realistic-budget-criticised-by-member-states/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1525276571.

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    https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/energy-strategy-and-energy-union/clean-energy-all-europeans.

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    https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/evaluation-eu-framework-taxation-energy-products-and-electricity_en.

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    Similarly, the combined production share of United States and Japan, which represented 70% of the world production in 2001, was less than 10% in 2015.

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    Mainly through 50% corporate tax reduction and loan facilities.

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    Asia, excluding China and India, is the second region with $2.4 billion R&D investments.

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    In the fields of Transports, Carbon capture and Smart grids, this share rose even up to around 40%.

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    High-valuable patents are defined as those that have a patent protection in at least two jurisdictions.

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    The economic literature often refers to the concept of “valley of death” to describe the timespan between the initial research and the commercialization a product which can lead to business failures because first movers are not adequately capitalized.

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  1. OFCE, Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Aurélien Saussay, Paul Malliet, Gissela Landa Rivera & Frédéric Reynès

  2. NEO – Netherlands Economic Observatory, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Frédéric Reynès

  3. TNO – Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands

    Frédéric Reynès

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  2. OFCE/Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Éloi Laurent

  3. Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France

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Saussay, A., Malliet, P., Landa Rivera, G., Reynès, F. (2018). Building a Consistent European Climate-Energy Policy. In: Creel, J., Laurent, É., Le Cacheux, J. (eds) Report on the State of the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98364-6_11

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