After reviewing China's involvement in energy, trade and climate change governance and its needs in this respect, this paper explores China's possible interest in a 'Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement' (SETA) approach as a way to address those needs. Subsequently, it identifies international and...

Mit der Vergabe des alternativen Nobelpreises an Hermann Scheer ist davon auszugehen, dass Veröffentlichungen aus seiner Feder einen erhöhten Aufmerksamkeitswert erhalten. Nach der Lektüre des neuesten Buches muss gesagt werden: Mit Recht! Scheer vermag es, spannend, mit zwingender Logik,...

This book examines how international trade can be utilised to build a sustainable future. It highlights how international trade and climate regimes can work together to put in place a Green New Deal. The potential of mega-regional trade agreements to aid climate change mitigation and power the...

In economic models of energy and climate policy, endogenous technological change is generally introduced as the result of either investment in research-and-development or of learningby-doing. In this paper, we analyze alternative ways of modeling learning-by-doing in the renewable energy sector...

Integrating renewable energy production into the electricity grid is an important policy goal to address climate change. However, such an integration faces economic and technological challenges. As power generation by renewable sources increases, power transmission patterns over the electric...