This paper adds to the scarce empirical evidence related to the impact of climate change on the manufacturing sector. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German municipalities are combined with the census of the...

Der Journalist (u.a. Deutschlandfunk, SWR, WDR) widmet sich regelmäi︣g vermeintlich positiven Entwicklungen, zuletzt z.B. "Industrie 4.0" Hier nun nimmt er den "Green New Deal" unter die Lupe, eine u.a. von Grünen und Böll-Stiftung entwickelte Wirtschaftsdoktrin, nach der die soziale...

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of both approaches. Main features of "weak" and "strong" sustainability approaches are...