Sustaining Society with Renewable Energy Dollars and Ecological Property Rights

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shann Turnbull
2016 ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Heal

There are four steps to be taken to reconcile prosperity with sustainability; addressing external costs, property rights, natural capital and setting the right goals by measuring what matters. This would lead to the rapid adoption of renewable energy and a resolution of the climate problem, and many other hitherto-intractable environmental problems. The economics is clear. Action is blocked by politics, by powerful vested interests and by beliefs that intervention in the market is fundamentally wrong.


2020 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. R37-R46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinkai Li ◽  
Oluwasola E. Omoju ◽  
Jin Zhang ◽  
Emily E. Ikhide ◽  
Gang Lu ◽  
...  

This study uses an econometric approach to investigate the role of IPR protection on renewable energy adoption using panel data of 102 countries at five-year intervals over the period 1990–2005. The Ginarte-Park index is used as a measure of the strength of intellectual property protection while the adoption of renewable energy is measured by the share of renewable energy in total final energy use. The results reveal that the level of intellectual property rights protection and reform of the intellectual property rights regime do not have significant impact on renewable energy adoption, suggesting that IPR protection is not a cause for concern in the global quest for clean energy transition. On the contrary, we find that trade openness has a stronger influence in the transition to clean energy. Based on the findings of the study, we conclude that IPR protection does not influence renewable energy adoption except in high R&D countries; rather policy makers should concentrate efforts on economic factors, such as trade openness, that drive the adoption of renewable energy technologies.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 5707
Author(s):  
Wu-Shun Tee ◽  
Lee Chin ◽  
Abdul Samad Abdul-Rahim

Climate change and finite energy supply issues have received substantial public attention in recent times. It has been argued that a sustainable energy supply associated with the promotion of clean energy is an important engine of growth, which calls for sound protection to reinforce investments in the renewable energy market. This paper examined the effect of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on renewable energy production using the dynamic panel generalised method of moments (GMM) technique on data from 59 sample countries. The empirical results provided strong evidence that IPRs significantly drive renewable energy production. Greater protection rights motivate renewable energy firms to increase energy production from renewable resources. Our findings further revealed that stronger protection propagates the deployment of renewable energy technologies that ultimately promote renewable energy production.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Harris ◽  
Meina Cai ◽  
Ilia Murtazashvili ◽  
Jennifer Murtazashvili
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