Integrating Joint Implementation Projects for Energy Efficiency on the Built Environment with White Certificates in The Netherlands

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• 作者：V. Oikonomou and W. van der Gaast
• 关键词：Joint implementation ; White Certificates ; Policy interaction ; Energy efficiency ; Built environment
• 刊名：Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：January, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 页码：61-85
• 全文大小：243.6 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Meteorology and Climatology
  Climate Change
  Environmental Management
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1596

文摘

In this paper we analyze policy interactions between two innovative climate and energy policy instruments, namely White Certificates (WhC) and Joint Implementation (JI) that target at energy efficiency improvement and reductions of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. We have selected The Netherlands and Bulgaria as a case study given that the former has a cumulated experience in energy efficiency policies and the latter for a growing potential in JI projects as a host country. Based on a method of analyzing policy interactions, we demonstrate how a possible design of such a scheme can take place and how it should function. A couple of parameters that deserve attention are a baseline definition and a conversion rate for credits. Our basic finding is that an integrated scheme is complementary and can assist substantially in achieving Dutch national United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kyoto Protocol targets. Dutch electricity and gas suppliers (parties that receive energy efficiency obligations) can implement energy efficiency projects domestically and in other countries, hence reducing total abatement costs. Furthermore, such a scheme can stimulate further energy efficiency actions from other stakeholders participating in energy markets. Based on an ex-ante assessment, a carefully designed hybrid WhC and JI scheme appears to be effective in terms of targets, efficient, generating positive impacts on markets and society, while uncertain in stimulating innovation.