| Abstract [eng] |
Climate change mitigation and adaptation are the two complementary climate policies of the 21st century. The main objectives of this dissertation are to evaluate the impacts of non-price instruments on residential energy conservation and to measure the impacts of climate change adaptation strategies on production efficiency. To this end, four independent studies, which are presented in separate chapters in the dissertation, were conducted. To achieve the objectives, the studies used experimental and quasi-experimental methods, such as difference in differences (DID) and propensity score matching (PSM). The findings reveal that on average, pure information feedback reduces electricity consumption by 0.661 kWh (or 8.6%) per day in Lithuanian households. This is equivalent to an annual energy saving of 241 kWh per household. Moreover, social comparison information provision has a spillover effect on energy-intensive secondary resource domains, namely hot water consumption and heating energy use. The spillover effects are twice as high as the direct effects of social comparison. I also find that an increase in energy-related financial literacy significantly improves the likelihood of investing in Soviet-era multiapartment buildings retrofit in Lithuania. On the other hand, implementing climate change adaptation strategies, such as improved crop varieties and water conservation activities, increased technical efficiency by about 12.37%. However, the effect varies by the type of crop planted. |
