To date, processes to implement the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international climate change mitigation and adaptation obligations are largely disconnected in most countries. This creates administrative overlaps, costs and hampers the development of effective problem...

2015 was a watershed year for addressing global challenges. Under the umbrella of the United Nations, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction were adopted. Six years after their adoption,...

The report examines the role offset approaches can play in the post-2020 climate regime. For this purpose, the report first develops a conceptual approach and a normative vision of what should be viewed as successful offset use. It then proposes tools to operationalize this vision. Lastly it...

A transition to sustainable development and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions is key to achieve the temperature limits established by the Paris Agreement (PA) and the global sustainable development goals (SDGs) agreed in the 2030 Agenda. To explore how carbon market approaches under Article 6 of...

A broad range of mitigation options have been identified and assessed in the literature that enable countries to close the existing gap between 2030 emission projections resulting from the aggregate efforts of countries to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement...

The adoption of the Paris Agreement with the long-term temperature limit has important repercussions for the distribution of effort between its signatories. The application of the equity and least-cost approaches to the distribution effort leadsto different outcomes. The disparity of the results...

Ziel dieses Forschungsvorhabens ist die Untersuchung von sektoralen Ansätzen in einem internationalen Regime der Klimapolitik, mit Fokus darauf eine Brücke zwischen existierenden und zukünftigen Mechanismen und Instrumenten zu schlagen. Hierfür analysieren wir zunächst die Diskussionen und...

This report examines how, and under which circumstances different forms of financing are suitable for results- or transfer-based mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation as well as enhancing removals in forests (REDD+) in the context of different countries and...

Sektorale Ziele werden als eine Möglichkeit diskutiert, das Risiko von Wettbewerbsverzerrungen und Carbon Leakage infolge von asymmetrischen Klimapolitiken oder klimapolitischen Zielen zu mindern (vgl. Baron et al. 2008, 2009; Fujiwara 2010, Center for Clean Air Policy 2010). Asymmetrien können in...

Dieser Bericht untersucht die Effekte einer weltweit gesteigerten Förderung von Schiefergas-Reserven und die Auswirkungen einer erhöhten Verfügbarkeit von Schiefergas auf die Treibhausgasreduktionsziele und -kosten. Zu diesem Zweck werden ein Szenario mit globaler Schiefergasförderung und...