Affordable energy is one of the objectives of EU's energy policy. This goal has been challenged by many factors inuencing energy prices and costs such as developments in global energy markets, the EU ETS and the promotion of renewables. Analysing energy costs (prices times quantity) instead of...

This paper investigates the impact of global value chains on energy footprints. Energy footprints are consumption-based indicators which record the energy used to produce a country's final demand. In order to disentangle key characteristics of global value chains and their effects on the global...

Neue Berechnungen des Bundesumweltministeriums zeigen, dass Deutschland wahrscheinlich die angestrebten Klimaziele für das Jahr 2020 deutlich verfehlen wird. Wie sollte die Klimapolitik neugestaltet werden, und welche Anreizsysteme sind für eine effektive und ökonomisch sinnvolle Klimapolitik...

This paper investigates the impact of global value chains on energy footprints. Energy footprints are consumption-based indicators which record the energy used to produce a country's final demand. In order to disentangle key characteristics of global value chains and their effects on the global...