December 14, 2008
The energy intensity of a country shows how much energy is needed to produce a single euro of gross domestic product (GDP). Central-Europe, which is more industry-oriented and has been addicted to cheap Soviet natural gas needs a lot more energy to produce its lower national income than Western Europe. This partly explains the worries… » read more
Posted by Dániel Antal
September 19, 2008
Hungary has had the lowest economic growth among Visegrad and Baltic countries in the past years. The only sector that sees a recovery in this year’s high food prices is the agriculture. The grain producing area has increased by 2% since 2007, but output is up by a staggering 42%. The rise is partly due… » read more
Posted by Dániel Antal
The high oil prices of 2008 have lead to a similar result as in the 1970s: the notorious oil-burner Americans cut back on their carbon-dioxide emission habits. I think this shows that the main source of carbon emission (fossil fuel) is price and income sensitive, and if you raise the price, consumption and emission will… » read more
Posted by Dániel Antal
May 30, 2008
We Europeans tend to believe that we are leading the fight against carbon emissions and we are too easily pointing the fingers at the United States. I think that the great visualization tool of Worldmapper, a world map that is distorted proportionally to carbon emissions should make us think. And the EU emission is still… » read more
Posted by Dániel Antal
I think it is a legitimate political question if we should curb economic activities in order to decrease carbon emission or not. But I see no reason to let the EU ETS going on: the quota trading system based on the Kyoto-protocol does not work. It is costly, unjust, and it just does not get… » read more
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