Efficienza energetica: misurazioni e impatti

Energy efficiency: measurement and impacts

Giuseppe Travaglini and Serena Rugiero

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Abstract: In this paper we argue that energy efficiency and environmental efficiency are two aspects of the same problem. To show this, we assess the analytical utility of the well-known IPACT and ImPACT models, presenting here a new developed identity named Augmented ImPACT. For Italy, our findings suggest that over the last twenty years the rise of energy efficiency has been accompanied by a controversial consumption of environmental resources and of CO2 accumulation. Specifically, the italian sector of services appears to be highly inefficient. In the second part of the paper we use a VAR model to estimate the impact of energy efficiency on economy, looking at employment value added and polluted emissions. Our results suggest that a rise in energy efficiency can help in improving both economic and environmental scenarios.

Keywords: Contabilità ambientale; efficienza energetica e ambientale; VAR; simulazioni di risposta all'impulso (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 Q43 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09-24
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