CECILIA2050 Country Report: Italy

This country level report is part of report series that has the objective to perform an initial ‘stock-take’ of the climate policy instrument mix at EU and Member State level. In line with the other reports of the series, this report groups the existing policies in Italy into four main categories, or policy landscapes: carbon pricing, energy efficiency, renewable energy and non-CO2 gases.

In the different chapters of the report the respective instruments of each policy landscape are described in detail and their interactions within each of the policy landscapes are identified. In a next step, the policy landscapes are evaluated using a specific definition of what constitutes optimal climate policy, which was developed in a previous CECILIA2050 report (What constitutes an optimal climate policy mix? Defining the concept of optimality, including political and legal framework conditions). In addition, the report also evaluates how the four different policy landscapes interact with each other.

Attachment: 

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Citation: 

Mazzanti, Massimiliano et al.. 2013. Country report: Italy. Contribution to CECILIA2050 Deliverable 1.2: Review of the existing instrument mix at EU level and in selected Member States. Ferrara: University of Ferrara.  

Funding: 

European Commission

Authors: 

Massimiliano Mazzanti, University of Ferrara, Davide Antonioli, University of Ferrara, Simone Borghesi, University of Siena, Alessio D’Amato, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Marianna Gilli, University of Ferrara, Francesco Nicolli, CERIS CNR Milan

Year of publication: 

2013

Number of pages: 

83

Table of contents: 

0

Executive summary

5

1

Description of policy landscapes

6

1.1

Classification of the instruments previously selected into policy landscapes

6

1.2

Detailed Description of Instruments within each Policy Landscape

8

1.2.1

Carbon Pricing

8

1.2.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

10

1.2.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

18

1.2.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases

31

1.3

Identification of Interactions of Instruments within each Policy Landscape

34

1.3.1

Carbon Pricing

34

1.3.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

34

1.3.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

37

1.3.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases

37

1.4

Description and Evaluation of Policy Landscapes in the Light of the Concept of Optimality Developed in task 1.1

38

1.4.1

Carbon Pricing

38

1.4.2

Energy Efficiency and Energy Consumption

41

1.4.3

Promotion of Renewable Sources of Energy

43

1.4.4

Non-Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases

46

2

Description and initial evaluation of the overall instrument mix

47

2.1

Identification and description of the main interactions between policy landscapes

47

2.2

Summary discussion of the combination of policy landscapes (the overall instrument mix) against each one of the elements of the concept of optimality

50

3

Conclusions

52

4

References

53