Global Energy Use: Decoupling or Convergence?

Zsuzsanna Csereklyei and David Stern

CCEP Working Papers from Centre for Climate & Energy Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: We examine the key factors driving change in energy use globally over the past four decades. Our econometric approach is robust to the presence of unit roots, unobserved time effects, and spatial effects. We test for both strong decoupling where economic growth has less effect on energy use as income increases, and weak decoupling where energy use declines over time in richer countries, ceteris paribus. Our key findings are that the growth of per capita energy use has been primarily driven by economic growth, convergence in energy intensity, and weak decoupling. There is no sign of strong decoupling.

Keywords: energy consumption; convergence; decoupling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ccep.crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/fil ... 14-12/ccep1419_0.pdf

Related works:
Journal Article: Global energy use: Decoupling or convergence? (2015)
Working Paper: Global energy use: Decoupling or convergence? (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:een:ccepwp:1419

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CCEP Working Papers from Centre for Climate & Energy Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCEP ().