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Water resources in Germany : increasingly polluted and regionally overused

Cullmann, Astrid; Sundermann, Greta; Wägner, Nicole; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 49/50, pp. 307-315

The effects of the climate crisis are worsening water shortages, not only in the Global South but also in Europe, for … example in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Due to inadequate pricing of surface and groundwater abstraction and a lack of … regulatory instruments, water overuse is occurring in some regions of Germany. Overuse is especially an issue for industry, which …

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Nitrate pollution of groundwater long exceeding trigger value : fertilization practices require more transparency and oversight

Sundermann, Greta; Wägner, Nicole; Cullmann, Astrid; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 8/9, pp. 61-72

-fifth of the groundwater sampling sites in Germany. Apart from impairing the ecosystem by, for example, causing eutrophication … of water bodies, nitrate-polluted drinking water also damages human health; it is suspected to cause cancer. Econometric … the fertilizer ordinance in 2017, it remains insufficient to effectively combat nitrate pollution of groundwater. As a …

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Reaching national Kyoto-Targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development

Bayer, Stefan (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2005

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EU ETS cap must and can be reduced more quickly

Zaklan, Aleksandar; Duscha, Vicki; Gibis, Claudia; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 26/27, pp. 293-300

Currently, the European Commission intends to increase the EU’s 2030 climate target. Instead of a 40 percent target, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by 50 to 55 percent compared to 1990 levels; the European Parliament is even considering a 65-percent reduction. The European Emissions...

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Linking cap-and-trade systems and green finance

Erdmann, Katharina; Zaklan, Aleksandar; Kemfert, Claudia - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 88 (2019) 2, pp. 89-100

Linking of two or more cap-and-trade systems promises gains in cost effectiveness and signals a strong commitment to carbon policy. Linking is also seen as one possible way of converging from regional climate policy initiatives toward a global climate policy architecture. Moreover, linking may...

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Impacts of the German support for renewable energy on electricity prices, emissions and profits : an analysis based on a European electricity market model

Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2007

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Europe's twenties : a study using the WIATEC model

Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans; Truong, Truong Phuoc - 2009

In this paper, we use a computable general equilibrium model (WIATEC) to study the potential impact of implementing Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and within the range of recent empirical evidence....

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Refunding ETS-proceeds to spur the diffusion of renewable energies : an analysis based on the dynamic oligopolistic electricity market model EMELIE

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009

We use a quantitative electricity market model to analyze the welfare effects of refunding a share of the emission trading proceeds to support renewable energy technologies that are subject to experience effects. We compare effects of supporting renewable energies under both perfect and...

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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012

The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...

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Subsidies for learning in renewable energy technologies under market power and emission trading

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2011

Under perfect competition on the output market, first best technology subsidies in the presence of learning by doing are justified by knowledge spill overs that are not accounted for by individual companies. First best output subsidies are thus depending directly on the learning effects and are,...

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