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A Pathway to Green Growth? Macroeconomic Impacts of Power Grid Infrastructure Investments in Germany

Schreiner, Lena - 2020

As part of the sustainable energy transition in Germany, substantial investments into power grid infrastructure are planned. They are intended to provide flexibility to an electricity system increasingly relying on variable renewable energy sources, and on European interconnection. The...

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Why We Need a Green Industrial Policy

Pegels, Anna - 2015

It is our aim in this book to identify the key drivers of green industrial policy, the processes involved and the factors on which its success depends. ‘Greening’ the economy, transforming it to ensure environmental sustainability, is becoming increasingly urgent at the current rates of...

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Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact : the role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian; Rennings, Klaus - 2011

Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The main purpose of the paper is to test whether different types of eco … the role of energy and raw materials prices as well as taxation as drivers for eco-innovation. Customer requirements are … Innovation ; Environmental Impacts ; Discrete Choice Models ; Regulation ; Cost Savings ; Demand Pull ; Environmental Policy …

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Environmental innovation in Germany

Hašc̆ic̆, Ivan - 2012

This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co …

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What Triggers Environmental Management and Innovation? Empirical Evidence for Germany

Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - 2015

relating to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm's voluntary adoption of an EMS and (2) its environmental innovation behavior … bivariate probit model that explicitly takes into account that a facility's decision on innovation activities is correlated with … the decision on EMS certification. Our empirical results indicate that environmental innovation activities are not …

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The role of "digitalization" in German sustainability bank reporting

Diener, Florian; Špaček, Miroslav - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-15

The financial services sector, particularly with respect to today's banking industry, is aiming to make a digital transition. Sustainable reporting is a holistic new reporting approach in banking and has only become partially mandatory for the sector. Thus, this paper makes a contribution to the...

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