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Scopurile acestei lucrări sunt analiza tendinţelor de consum la nivel global în cazul surselor de energie primară şi identificarea măsurii concrete în care este încurajată la nivel european dezvoltarea resurselor regenerabile. Se prezintă o scurtă trecere în revistă a obiectivelor strategiei energetice a Uniunii Europene şi se descrie tabloul actua...
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... The energy economics is correlated with the economic growth of a country, the energy resources constituting both the material conditions and the driving force for development and welfare [4]. Energy is at the same time a fundamental requirement of economic growth and a consequence of it. ...
This paper has in view the emphasis of the importance of energy for human development and economic growth, but also its impacts on sustainability. In a trinomial approach, it concisely presents the negative effects of energy consumption on environment, and at the same time its positive effects on economic growth. In a pursuit to identify overall effects of energy, the energy consumption is correlated with the economic growth and CO 2 emissions, by using energy and CO 2 intensities, at the European Union level, taken into comparison with the rest of the world. The paper argues that sustainable development must be perceived as another dimension of the economic growth that can be only achieved by a sustainable energy production and use.
... Even though the sustainable development, as a term, was lately recognised in 1987 [2], the environmental issues together with concerns regarding the volatility in energy prices were the results of the first oil sock. Therefore, the consideration of renewable energy sources (RES) came as a natural answer, but their further development was not according with the expectations of the time [3]. Since then, all RES registered important advances: the modern renewables, like solar energy showed a spectacular increase, the wind energy disclosed a tremendous progress, geothermal was more seriously taken into consideration, while hydro power showcased a milder increase, considering the limited resources, mostly in terms of micro hydro stations [4,5]. ...
This paper aims to identify the possibilities of biomass to become more sustainable using a three-dimensional approach that seeks to integrate the economic, social and environmental concerns arisen from the production and use of biomass. This objective encompasses a critical analysis of the challenges faced by biomass. The first goal resides in clarifying the variety of biomass feedstock by exploring its definitions by different normative acts and by introducing a new classification in different categories depending on their sustainability. This explanation also contains considerations regarding origin, composition, characteristics and conversion routes for biomass. The second goal has in view to determine the Advantages and Barriers faced by biomass, accompanied by Corrective actions (ABC analysis). The main findings reveal the great variety of biomass resources that are facing multiple challenges and an inconsistency in defining it at international level. Consequently, a biomass differentiation is introduced by placing sustainability safeguards to different biomass resources. This recommends the use of the term biomass only for residues and wastes derived from agriculture and forestry, while the other resources should bear a name correlated with their specificity (bio-cultures, bio-wastes and bio-tech).
