The Energy Transition Agenda: An Economic Perspective

Katheline Schubert

Revue d'économie politique, 2017, vol. 127, issue 6, 965-983

Abstract: The objective of this paper, drawn from my Presidential address at the 2016 AFSE conference, is twofold. First, it is to convince the readers that the energy transition, from a present where we massively burn polluting fossil fuels that contribute greatly to global warming, to a future where we would be able to obtain our energy from carbon-free resources, is inevitable, and cannot wait. Second, it is to examine whether it is a good idea ? or not ? to use shale gas as a bridge fuel allowing the world to escape from coal while buying time to make the technological innovations indispensable for the deployment of clean renewable energies on a large scale.

Keywords: energy transition; shale gas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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