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The contribution of energy efficiency towards meeting CO2 targets

In: Handbook on Energy and Climate Change

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  • Joanne Evans
  • Massimo Filippini
  • Lester C. Hunt

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This timely Handbook reviews many key issues in the economics of energy and climate change, raising new questions and offering solutions that might help to minimize the threat of energy-induced climate change.

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  • Joanne Evans & Massimo Filippini & Lester C. Hunt, 2013. "The contribution of energy efficiency towards meeting CO2 targets," Chapters, in: Roger Fouquet (ed.), Handbook on Energy and Climate Change, chapter 8, pages 175-223, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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