Based on data from broadly representative surveys among more than 1,400 citizens in Germany and Sweden, this paper empirically examines the support of different groups of climate-related (passenger) transport policy measures targeting vehicle use, public transport, air travel, and bicycle use....

Effective carbon taxation is essential to achieving the green transition. However, there is typically stiff opposition to carbon taxation due to perceived or actual adverse equity and other impacts. Hence, a better understanding of which factors, including the use of tax revenue, can increase...

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

Das Ziel eines klimaneutralen Gebäudebestandes bis zur Mitte des laufenden Jahrhunderts erfordert die energieeffiziente Modernisierung fast aller bestehenden Häuser und Wohnungen. Das derzeitige Volumen an privaten und öffentlichen Investitionen reicht jedoch nicht aus, um den Umbau in dieser...

Das Ziel eines klimaneutralen Gebäudebestandes bis zur Mitte des laufenden Jahrhunderts erfordert die energieeffiziente Modernisierung fast aller bestehenden Häuser und Wohnungen. Das derzeitige Volumen an privaten und öffentlichen Investitionen reicht jedoch nicht aus, um den Umbau in dieser...

Das Ziel eines klimaneutralen Gebäudebestandes bis zur Mitte des laufenden Jahrhunderts erfordert die energieeffiziente Modernisierung fast aller bestehenden Häuser und Wohnungen. Das derzeitige Volumen an privaten und öffentlichen Investitionen reicht jedoch nicht aus, um den Umbau in dieser...

With countries from around the world set to meet in Copenhagen to try to hammer out a post-2012 climate change agreement, no one would disagree that a U.S. commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions is essential to such a global pact. However, despite U.S. president Obama's recent announcement...

China, from its own perspective cannot afford to, and from an international perspective, is not allowed to continue on the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. The country needs to transform its economy to effectively address concern about a range...

As an important step towards building a "harmonious society" through "scientific development", China has incorporated for the first time in its five-year economic plan an energy input indicator as a constraint. While it achieved a quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity by...

There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In this article, I propose and analyze a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically feasible approach for the United States to...