This book explores the establishment of emissions trading as a form of environmental, market-based governance. It conceptualizes markets as institutions, and analyzes them as a system of climate governance. To this end, it argues that international efforts to promulgate markets run up against...

This text on the economics of climate change and climate policy can be used at three different levels - advanced undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral. It covers the critical issues and clearly identifies the specific sections each level of reader should explore

Recent developments suggest that well-intended climate policies--including carbon taxes and subsidies for renewable energy—might not accomplish what policy makers intend. Hans-Werner Sinn has described a “green paradox,” arguing that these policies could hasten global warming by...

Policy frameworks and institutions for decarbonisation : the energy sector as 'litmus test' / Lynette Molyneaux and Keith Sue -- Technologies for decarbonising the electricity sector -- Wind energy / Nathan Steggel and David Osmond -- Solar photovoltaics / Andrew Blakers.

"Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada’s fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action. Regime of...

Die Evaluation zur Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel (DAS ) analysiert die Entwicklung und Wirkung der DAS. Im Vordergrund steht der Zeitraum seit Veröffentlichung des Fortschrittsberichts zur Anpassungsstrategie des Bundes seit 2015. Unter anderem analysiert die Evaluation,...

This thesis was written by Christian Beermann while he was a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2015. The...

Climate change is giving rise to diverse risks, ranging from changing incidences of tropical diseases to increased risks of drought, varying widely in their potential severity, frequency and predictability. Governments must integrate the management of these climate risks into policy making if...

Für eine klimaneutrale Energieversorgung muss Deutschland Technologien und Infrastrukturen ausbauen: Es braucht mehr erneuerbare Energien, Wärmepumpen, Elektromobilität, Strom- und Wasserstoffnetze. Um Klimaneutralität zu erreichen, wird das allein aber nicht mehr ausreichen. Wie Deutschland...