Special Issue "Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Policies and Strategies in Energy"
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable energy development; climate change mitigation in the energy sector; behavioral changes; assessment of willingness to pay
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Interests: sustainable development; sustainability assessment; efficiency and productivity; energy economics; assessment of willingness to pay
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The climate change mitigation and adaptation issues in the energy sector need more attention as the energy sector is playing a crucial role in terms of the climate agenda. It is important to provide decision support with knowledge on how to incentivize appropriate mitigation and adaptation behavior in the energy sector.
This Special Issue aims to both review and contribute to the state-of-art regarding mitigation and mitigation options in the energy sector, including policies and measures, strategies, and actions in both developing and developed countries. It will foster a discussion of the opportunities and challenges in the energy sector from various perspectives.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Mitigation options, strategies, and actions in the energy sector of developed and developing nations;
- Climate change mitigation policies and measures and their interactions in the energy sector;
- Adaptation options, strategies and actions in the energy sector;
- Development of climate change mitigation scenarios in the energy secto;
- The role of energy in climate change mitigation and adaptation;
- Multicriteria methods to address climate change mitigation problems in the energy sector;
- DEA for productivity analysis to address climate change mitigation issues in the energy sector;
- Decomposition analysis of GHG emissions from the energy sector;
- MCDA of climate policies, strategies and scenarios in the energy sector.
Prof. Dr. Dalia Streimikiene
Prof. Dr. Tomas Baležentis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- greenhouse gas emission trends
- commitments of parties to UNFCCC
- climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation
- energy sector
- strategies
- actions, policies and measures
Planned Papers
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Title: Sharing Lisboa: A Digital Social Market to Promote Sustainable and Energy Efficient Behaviours
Authors: Catarina C. Rolim; Patrícia Baptista
Affiliation: IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Abstract: Several solutions and city planning policies and measures have emerged over the years to promote climate change mitigation and the development of sustainable cities, but crucial a component often disregarded focuses on changing behaviour towards energy efficiency improvements. The Sharing Cities Lighthouse program ambitions to contribute to climate change mitigation by improving urban mobility, energy efficiency in buildings and reducing carbon emissions by successfully engaging citizens in the transformation of their living context and fostering local level innovation. A Digital Social Market (DSM), which is a shared service model combining both physical and digital environments, encouraging citizen engagement through the creation and availability of new services and business models and incentivizing behaviour change was developed and implemented in the city of Lisbon. Called Sharing Lisboa, and supported by the Sharing Lisboa APP, it works as an exchange of goods and services, that brings citizens together to support a common cause. In this pilot run, the common cause were three schools competing for the course of one academic year (2018/2019) to win a final prize with the engagement of school community and surrounding community (neighbours, local businesses, Lisbon citizens). Sharing Lisboa aimed to create a sustainable community, promoting behaviour change and the adoption of more sustainable and efficient behaviours, such as: energy saving behaviours, cycling, walking, supporting local businesses. Through the adoption of these behaviours, participants would earn points that would revert to the cause (school) they supported. Over the 6 months during which Sharing Lisboa operated, a total of 1260 users registered at the Sharing Lisboa APP, collecting more than 850.000 points through a total of approximately 17000 transactions done in the APP. This paper explores how the Digital Social Market has the potential to become a new city service, bringing together citizens and municipalities while promoting the sustainable development of cities, promoting local businesses, using immediate rewards/gratifications to incentive engagement. Furthermore, it is crucial to reach economic viability through a business model that is both profitable and useful for the city, businesses and citizens, since investment will be required for infrastructure and management of such a market.