Angesichts erfolgloser internationaler Klimaschutzverhandlungen und einer kaum zu erwartenden Trendumkehr bereits eingetretener klimatischer Veränderungen gewinnt die Option der Anpassung an den Klimawandel immer mehr an klimapolitischer Bedeutung. Zahlreiche Länder haben durch die Konzeption...

The European Council has proposed to stick to a more ambitious GHG target but to scrap a binding RES target for the post-2020 period. This is in line with many existing assessments which demonstrate that additional RES policies impair the cost-effectiveness of addressing a single CO2...

Unlike in developing countries, there tends to be no problem of access to water, electricity, and heating for private households in transition countries. However, transition countries have a considerable amount of low-income households, and the problem of affordability of these...

Intro -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Approaching the Issue -- 1.2 Methodology -- 1.3 Structure of the Study -- 2 Supporting Photovoltaics - The Case of the German EEG -- 2.1 General Promotion Possibilities of Renewable Electricity Generation -- 2.1.1 Rationale of Promoting Renewables -- 2.1.2 Policy...

To increase the sustainability of economic processes and products as well as the use of sustainable resource inputs, a transition is required from the hitherto predominantly fossil resource-based "throughput economy" towards a circular flow economy based on renewable resources, the so-called...