The option of adapting to climate change is becoming more important in climate change policy. Hence, responding to climate change now involves both mitigation to address the cause and adaptation as a response to already ongoing or expected changes. These changes are also of relevance for the...

To decarbonize the power sector policy-makers need to commit to long-term credible rules for climate and energy policy. Otherwise, time-inconsistent policy-making will impair investments into low-carbon technologies. However, the future benefits and costs of decarbonization are subject to...

There is a growing body of literature mentioning the slow pace of energy technological progress as compared to other technologies like information technology (IT), but the reasons why energy sector is perplexed by slow innovation remain unexplained. Based on a variety-expanding endogenous...

In creating a level playing field that facilitates the deployment of renewable energy technology (RET), the traditional energy policy regime based on eliminating RET's cost gaps versus fossil energy technology (FET) may be not sufficient. Building on an economic model of energy technology...

In the 90s, when the liberalization of Italian energy markets started, short-term efficiency issues were driving the economic debate. Over time, the focus of energy policies has progressively shifted towards a multilayered set of interrelated long-term objectives, ranging from climate change, to...

India is the fourth largest emitter of carbon-di-oxide after China, USA and the EU but India is the only country among the top emitters to have per capita energy consumption that is significantly lower than average world consumption. The contradiction between high CO2 emissions at the national...

Dieser Beitrag aus der »Kurz-zum-Klima«-Reihe beschreibt die Pläne und den aktuellen Stand des Ausbaus der Übertragungsnetze in Deutschland.

Dieser Beitrag aus der »Kurz-zum-Klima«-Reihe beschreibt die Pläne und den aktuellen Stand des Ausbaus der Übertragungsnetze in Deutschland.

We build, calibrate and simulate a stylized energy-economy model designed to evaluate the magnitude of carbon tax that would allow the French economy to reduce by a factor of four its CO2 emissions at a forty-year horizon. We estimate the substitution possibilities between fossil energy and...

Die Energieversorgung muss klimaschonend, sicher, aber auch bezahlbar sein. Fossile Energien allen voran Öl und später auch Gas werden knapper und teurer. Die fossile Ressource Kohle steht uns zwar noch sehr lange zur Verfügung, die Verbrennung verursacht jedoch klimagefährliche...