The biofuel development boom has sparked concerns over deforestation and food issues and created a tendency to level criticism on the diversion of edible oil to fuel production. The nonfood oil plant Jatropha curcas L. appeared on the scene as the favorite response to this criticism. But,...

This paper examines the impact of rising demand for bioenergy on agricultural markets and prices. It reviews quantitative assessments of bioenergy potential and concludes that demand for bioenergy is significant enough to create a change in the traditional paradigm for global agriculture, which...

In Europa bzw. in einer Vielzahl europäischer Länder gab und gibt es mit der Abwrackprämie vergleichbare Programme. Der Beitrag prüft die Wirkungen dieser Maßnahmen bezüglich des CO2-Ausstoßes.

Diese Studie wurde für das Umweltbundesamt erstellt und soll darüber hinaus Anstöße für das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung initiierte Projekt „Neue Techniken für den integrierten, medienübergreifenden Umweltschutz“ liefern. Den Hintergrund für die Studie bildet die...

This is motivated by the need to include issues of risk, uncertainty, irreversibility, learning and catastrophe in analyses of climate change, particularly integrated assessment models used to investigate limate change policy.

This paper considers the case of Bayesian learning about the relationship between the greenhouse-gas level and temperature rise. Learning takes time because of a stochastic shock to the realized global mean temperature. The paper illustrates the difficulty of quickly learning about the...