Though the sustainability research community as well as international decision makers seem to share the conviction that, akin to the challenges of climate policy, a great transition will also be needed in order to decouple human wellbeing from resource use over the next decades, there exist only...

Europe 2020 is the EU's growth strategy for the coming decade, pushing the EU to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. Under the Europe 2020 strategy the flagship initiative for a resource-efficient Europe points the way towards sustainable growth and supports a shift towards a...

Das energie- und klimapolitische Maßnahmenpaket der EU-Kommission vom 23.Januar 2008 ist in seinen Grundzügen in das Modell GINFORS eingesetzt worden. Mit GINFORS sind im Jahr 2007 verschiedene Varianten zu Erreichung der EU-Klimaziele im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und...

The global dimension of environmental policy, which has become a subject of international policy with the concrete discussion of targets and instruments, constitutes a huge information gap for environmental policy. The authors postulate, that this can only be filled by the application of global...

Using the extensive and disaggregated global GINFORS model, consequences of different possible post-Kyoto regimes on the German and European economy and other major economies in the medium run until 2020 are depicted. The approach is very extensive and detailed in comparison to already existing...

In den letzten Jahren sind die Modelle PANTA RHEI und GINFORS der GWS für vielfältige Fragestellungen im Bereich Energie- und Klimaschutzmaßnahmen eingesetzt worden. Die untersuchten Fragestellungen sind in der Regel so komplex, dass intuitive Erklärungen durch „scharfes Nachdenken“...