EU climate and energy policy defines ambitious objectives for the EU member countries requiring a fundamental change of energy systems. This paper suggests basing the analysis of restructuring options on energy services instead of energy flows. In order to provide the energy services in a...

Viele Empfehlungen für die Klimapolitik konzentrieren sich auf zwei Schwerpunkte: erstens einen möglichst raschen Ausbau der Nutzung erneuerbarer Energie und zweitens, ergänzend dazu, eine Bepreisung von Treibhausgasemissionen. Der vorliegende Policy Brief legt vor dem Hintergrund der...

Both the UN SDGs and the Paris Agreement imply ambitious long-term targets which only can be met with a fundamental restructuring of economic and social systems. We propose a set of energy and climate policy indicators that allows informed policy making and goes beyond the approaches that mainly...

Two major international frameworks provide landmarks for future development paths: the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. Monitoring the progress towards achieving the individual goals has to consider a multitude of synergies and trade-offs. In this paper we...