High Energy Costs: Incentive or Obstacle for Energy Efficiency?

(21 December 2021) Achievement of the long-term global temperature goal — to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, ideally to 1.5 degrees, above pre-industrial levels — requires not only a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but also more efficient use of energy. In this dashboard we’ve put together data from different sources to estimate whether high energy prices can serve as an incentive to increase energy efficiency.
Our estimates for a sample of 79 countries...