Energy efficiency contributes to the main objectives of energy policy in the European Union: energy security, cost effectiveness and environmental benefits. However, the efficiency potential remains widely untapped. Will White Certificate Instruments, a new framework instrument to foster end-use energy efficiency, help to close the energy efficiency gap? The analysis compares the political process of choosing and designing White Certificate Instruments in Italy, France and Great Britain. The book shows that the type of policy instrument as well as its image has an influence not only on agenda-setting but also on the policy instrument’s effectiveness due to interactions with existing energy efficiency discourses, regulatory traditions and the prevailing policy style.

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Berlin, Germany

Dagmar Sibyl Steuwer

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Dagmar Sibyl Steuwer is Research Associate at the German Advisory Council on the Environment.

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Book Title: Energy Efficiency Governance
Book Subtitle: The Case of White Certificate Instruments for Energy Efficiency in Europe
Authors: Dagmar Sibyl Steuwer
Series Title: Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00681-5
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-00680-8Published: 08 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-00681-5Published: 09 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2626-2827
Series E-ISSN: 2626-2835
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 382
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general

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