This paper compares two different types of carbon accounting methods – measuring all emissions resulting from domestic production (the dominant method on which international carbon reduction targets are based) versus measuring the carbon emissions embodied in goods in the country where they...

Wie werden verschiedene Verfahren zur Entnahme von CO₂ aus der Atmosphäre von Stakeholdern in unterschiedlichen Regionen Deutschlands wahrgenommen? Dieser Frage sind Workshops des Projektes "BioNET - Multi-stage assessment of biobased negative emission technologies"1 nachgegangen, um...

The inefficient resource use at a time of growing demand is leading to increasing environmental pressure and resources scarcity that will affect Europe and other parts of the world over the next years and decades. Prices for global commodities like oil, raw materials and wheat have been...

A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas is devoted to the production of biomass for non-food purposes. The derived products include, for example, biofuels, textiles, detergents or cosmetics. Given the far-reaching global implications of an expanding non-food bioeconomy, an...

In the context of the transformation toward a "green economy," issues related to natural resource use have rapidly increased in importance in European and international policy debates. The large number of studies applying economy-wide material flow analysis so far mostly produced aggregated...

In recent years, the impacts of climate change become increasingly evident, both in magnitude and frequency. The design and implementation of adequate climate adaptation policies play an important role in the macroeconomic policy discourse to assess the impact of climate change on regional and...

To determine footprints of the German bioeconomy, a scenario framework is needed in which consistent assumptions are made for framework data. This is particularly important for ex-ante considerations. The approach in SYMOBIO 1.0 builds on earlier work that has projected the EXIOBASE database...

Im Rahmen eines Forschungsvorhabens für das BMWK hat die GWS zusammen mit Prognos die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Effekte von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen berechnet. Die direkten Wirkungen der Maßnahmen im Energiebereich sind in bottom-up Modellen der Prognos AG ermittelt worden. Die...

Policy simulations for national economies with econometric models in general are done using a stand alone national model with exogenous export values and import prices. In a globalised world such an exercise is critical, since the policy in question may change the export prices and the import...