Predicting long-run growth effects of decarbonization is subject to high uncertainty. Awareness of limitations of growth forecasts should be raised. Scientific communication should aim at forecasts being misused in the political debate. Comparative analysis of growth effects can have value for...

Das diesjährige 500-jährige Jubiläum des Weihnachtsbaums gibt Anlass, einige allgemeine Fakten, vor allem unter dem Gesichtspunkt des Umweltschutzes, der C02-Emissionen und des Stromverbrauchs, über Weihnachtsbäume und -beleuchtung zu vermitteln.

Currently informal and formal international negotiations on climate change take place in an intensive way since the Kyoto Protocol expires already in 2012. A post-Kyoto regulation to combat global warming is not yet stipulated. Due to rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emission levels,...